inaptness

1 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.

2 In making an inapt analogy to securities markets, Sen. Lee’s bill would take us back to a less efficient time.

3 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.

4 Yet the hardship lieth not in the inaptness of the teacher, but in the inability of the taught.”

5 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.

6 "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.

7 Some assert that a grip can hardly be considered an inapt jail without also being a biplane.

8 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.

9 If not then your analogy is inapt.

10 You made my chance indisposition and occasional inaptness your minister—that is, the ground on which you now excuse yourself.

11 an inapt but well-meaning attempt to inject some humor into the proceedings

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

13 The comparison is pungent but inapt: Archival work is not death work.

14 The comparison isn’t entirely inapt.

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

16 "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.

17 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.

18 Moreover, the analogy to securities regulation is inapt.

19 And the insurgency scenario is based on an inapt analogy.

20 There is sometimes inaptness or remoteness in his resemblances.

1 不适宜

bad hostile unfavorable unseemly inapplicable inexpedient inapposite ill-fitted unmeet inaptly inexpediency disagree

2 不相干

immaterial inconsequential inapplicable inapt beside the point neither here nor there

3 无用

useless idle invalid vain bum insignificant impractical futile dud duff inapt otiose vainly futility invalidity good-for-nothing in vain

4 不合适

misbecoming unequal inept ill-fitting incongruent off-key unsuitably inaptly inappropriateness unsuitability unsuited to unfortunate unhappy indecent inopportune injudicious inapt inaptitude