inaptness

The Times of Israel reports that Obama has issued even direr threats—sorry, “warnings”—to the Jewish state: That points to the rather shocking inaptness of Kerry’s golf analogy.

"The people were educated to loyalty," now, and it was high time to commence the punishment of those who had shown an inaptness to receive the lessons, or a distaste for the method of instruction.

She stopped, the needle poised above Lee's arm, realizing the inaptness of her remark.

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.

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