inaptness
Example Sentences
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Yet the hardship lieth not in the inaptness of the teacher, but in the inability of the taught.”
From The Well in the Desert An Old Legend of the House of Arundel by M. (Madelaine) Irwin
After an especially miserable showing of inaptness one morning, he flung down his driver in disgust.
From Best Short Stories by Thomas L. Masson
Apart from the tendency to convergent heredity already emphasised, there is a wider tendency to slight abnormality, a minor degree of inaptness for ordinary life in the parentage of genius.
From Essays in War-Time Further Studies in the Task of Social Hygiene by Havelock Ellis
There is sometimes inaptness or remoteness in his resemblances.
From Poets of the South by F. V. N. (Franklin Verzelius Newton) Painter
Then his seriousness and simplicity, like that of Biblical and Oriental writers,—a kind of childish inaptness and homeliness,—often exposes him to our keen, almost abnormal sense of the ridiculous.
From Whitman A Study by John Burroughs
