inaptness
Example Sentences
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"Oh, I'm sorry," murmured the girl, striving so hard to speak with impersonal unconcern that she did not notice the inaptness of her reply.
From Miss Billy — Married by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter
From what is recorded of the infancy of Chatterton, parents may be satisfied that an inaptness to learn in childhood, is far from being a prognostic of future dullness.
From Lives of the English Poets From Johnson to Kirke White, Designed as a Continuation of Johnson's Lives by Henry Francis Cary
The fault is not in any inaptness of the images, nor in the mere vulgarity of the things themselves, but in that of the associations they awaken.
From Among My Books First Series by James Russell Lowell
Especially unfortunate, and finally disastrous to the American arms, was the inaptness and inertness of the Secretary of War, General Armstrong, in failing to adopt, promptly and adequately, measures to meet the emergency.
From The Battle of New Orleans including the Previous Engagements between the Americans and the British, the Indians and the Spanish which led to the Final Conflict on the 8th of January, 1815 by Z. F. (Zachariah Frederick) Smith
She well knew that her calmness and courage were entirely due to the inaptness of Clameran.
From File No. 113 by Émile Gaboriau
