inapt
adjective
not apt or fitting.
inaptness
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a word derived from
inapt.
Example Sentences
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Realising this, he did not quite understand why he rather liked it in the case of Emily Fox-Seton, though he only liked it remotely and felt his own inaptness a shade absurd.
From Emily Fox-Seton Being "The Making of a Marchioness" and "The Methods of Lady Walderhurst" by C. D. (Charles D.) Williams
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
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 Edward Payson Roe
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
The last-mentioned character is a farmer, but, like the others, he is a species of incapable; and the word dandin in the old French dictionaries is given as signifying inaptness or incapacity.
From Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes by Elizur Wright
