inaptness

Example Sentences

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My dear Dick, I am becoming accustomed to the extraordinary inaptness of your scriptural allusions.

From The Upas Tree A Christmas Story for all the Year by Barclay, Florence L. (Florence Louisa)

She started to leave, furious with herself for her inaptness, and instead of going she paused and turned back.

From A Breath of Prairie and other stories by Marchand, J. N.

"He has never expressed any anxiety," Grace began, with her inaptness at evasion.

From Dr. Breen's Practice by Howells, William Dean

Sometimes, as her voice rose clear and sweet to my open windows, I answered remarks addressed to me with an inaptness that only Mrs. Yocomb understood.

From A Day of Fate by Roe, Edward Payson

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 Smith, Z. F. (Zachariah Frederick)