Greater inaptness of expression would be hard to imagine. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Conceding the "inaptness" of my diction, one can't help but notice that Powers 'focus is how one says something rather than what is said, which is rather dangerous given that he positions himself in the nation's capital. From Wordnik.com. [The Powers That Be] Reference
I confess utter bewilderment at the inaptness of the comparison. From Wordnik.com. [Marc Kusnetz: Bereft in Berlin] Reference
The difficulty with finding an apt replacemen for GWOT highlights the inaptness of the term. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » After GWOT, What?] Reference
Because of its hypothetical inaptness with such a culture, Stone argued now that all future Muslim immigration must end. From Wordnik.com. [UNITE against RACISM] Reference
This put me and Schillie upon employing our spare time in teaching them ourselves, which announcement was at first received rather coldly; but they derived such infinite amusement from our inaptness to the business that they were quite impatient if anything prevented us performing this office. From Wordnik.com. [Yr Ynys Unyg The Lonely Island] Reference
There is sometimes inaptness or remoteness in his resemblances. From Wordnik.com. [Poets of the South] Reference
Satyam exposed not just promoter corruptness but also bored inaptness. From Wordnik.com. [Moneycontrol Top Headlines] Reference
There has come over the spiritual nature an inaptness, and often an antipathy. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons. [Vol. I.]] Reference
In this hope he was deceived by his own inaptness and his adversary's readiness. From Wordnik.com. [The Major Operations of the Navies in the War of American Independence] Reference
After an especially miserable showing of inaptness one morning, he flung down his driver in disgust. From Wordnik.com. [Best Short Stories] Reference
Possibly the inaptness of the instrument he employed only shows more clearly his greatness as an orator. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne] Reference
You made my chance indisposition and occasional inaptness your minister — that is, the ground on which you now excuse yourself. From Wordnik.com. [Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher] Reference
"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 Wordnik.com. [Miss Billy -- Married] Reference
As we clambered on, two bushmen all in white, a dog or two, and a woman in a holland riding-dress, the Maluka pointed out the inaptness of the simile. From Wordnik.com. [We of the Never-Never] Reference
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 Wordnik.com. [A Day of Fate] Reference
As they did so, the inaptness of the song became apparent: despite the late hour, no one was half awake and the empire The National are creating is anything but fake. From Wordnik.com. [EARVOLUTION] Reference
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 Wordnik.com. [Lives of the English Poets]
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 Wordnik.com. [Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes] Reference
Gibraltar, closely blockaded by land and sea, was only kept alive in its desperate resistance by the skill of English seamen triumphing over the inaptness and discords of their combined enemies. From Wordnik.com. [The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783] Reference
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 Wordnik.com. [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] Reference
But care for the poor was not a likely trait to ascribe to Judas, and John expressly assigns a motive of his own for his language (v. 6); and the very inaptness of this plea to Judas may have caused its transfer to others. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Jesus Christ in Its Historical Connexion and Historical Developement.] Reference
Reckless audacity came to be considered the courage of a loyal ally; prudent hesitation, specious cowardice; moderation was held to be a cloak for unmanliness; ability to see all sides of a question, inaptness to act on any. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the Peloponnesian War] Reference
The consequence of this was obvious, for the lunar year of the hejrah being eleven days short of the sidereal or solar year the order of the seasons was soon inverted; and it is only astonishing that its inaptness to the purposes of agriculture should not have been immediately discovered. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants] Reference
In short, the scheme is nugatory and impracticable; the inaptness of the project is only equalled by the vanity of the attempt. ". From Wordnik.com. [The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria] Reference
Yet the hardship lieth not in the inaptness of the teacher, but in the inability of the taught. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Well in the Desert An Old Legend of the House of Arundel] Reference
Impatience through inaptness to perceive. From Wordnik.com. [THE EXCURSION BOOK SECOND] Reference
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