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inaptness

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in·apt  (n-pt)
adj.
1. Inappropriate: an inapt remark.
2. Inept: inapt handling of the project.

in·aptly adv.
in·aptness n.
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Noun1.inaptness - inappropriateness; "greater inaptness of expression would be hard to imagine"
inappropriateness, unworthiness - the quality of being not particularly suitable or befitting; "he retracted nothing that he had said about the inappropriateness of either a corporeal God or a God who is a person"; "his praise released from her loud protestations of her unworthiness"
appositeness, aptness - appropriateness for the occasion; "the phrase had considerable aptness"


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