Sentence example with the word 'aptness'

aptness

appositeness, bent, expediency, fitness, genius, helpfulness, meetness, propitiousness, rightness, suitableness, turn

Definition n. a disposition to behave in a certain way

Last update: October 22, 2015


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After making allowance, however, for this deflecting agency, it must be admitted that in the highest quality of the statesman, " aptness to be right," he was surpassed by none of his contemporaries, or - if by anybody - by Sir George Cornewall Lewis alone.   [Please select]

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I had never seen a man betray such a peculiar aptness amid machinery as he did.   [Please select]

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The name Anti-Federalist lost its aptness after the inauguration of the Government.   [Please select]

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"Not so much to that as to the aptness of the pupil."   [Please select]

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I marvelled at its aptness, and also that it should have come to me so pat.   [Please select]

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"But the old stagers admit that the colored brethren have a wonderful aptness at legislative proceedings."   [Please select]

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After leaving college he became a school-teacher, with no aptness and much disdain for his calling.   [Please select]

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Hodder was silent, overwhelmed by the brutal aptness of her figures.   [Please select]

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That strenuous application which was one of his most remarkable gifts in manhood showed itself in his youth, and his application was backed or inspired by superior intelligence and aptness.   [Please select]

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A NARROW-GAUGE MULE--THE PRAIRIE HARE [Illustration] One has to see this creature with its great flopping ears, and its stiff-legged jumping like a bucking mule, to realize the aptness of its Western nickname.   [Please select]

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