uncomprehension

Her look was one of total uncomprehension, but he spoke for his own benefit as much as hers.

Conan The Victorious Jordan, Robert 1984

"Beat him with it," he said, and laughed at her look of complete uncomprehension.

Conan The Unconquered Jordan, Robert, 1948- 1983

"Beat him with it," he said, and laughed at her look of complete uncomprehension.

Conan The Unconquered Jordan, Robert, 1948- 1983

The reaction of startled uncomprehension among the British public and press to recent events in the north must suggest to perceptive young Unionist men and women that partition has created a political twilight zone.

Emerald Isle in a Sea of Discord 1969

Hornblower stood sword in hand, staring at him in momentary uncomprehension.

Hornblower And The Hotspur Forester, C. S. 1962

His kisses altered, but still she bore them, dimly aware of portent in them, but trying, with a woman's guile, to laugh them off by seeming to keep a child's uncomprehension of what they meant.

Secret Bread F. Tennyson Jesse

Music never stirred her, and she regarded the society of the country neighbourhood where she lived with a sense of uncomprehension which she sometimes found difficult to conceal.

Peter and Jane or The Missing Heir

Then, at the evident uncomprehension in Arkwright's face, she added: "Has it been going on like this -- very long?"

Miss Billy -- Married 1914

His hatred for the interloper was as nothing now to his rage against Valentina, a rage that had its birth in a wondering uncomprehension of how she should prefer that coarse, swashbuckling bully to himself, the peerless Gonzaga.

Love-at-Arms Rafael Sabatini 1912

He spoke with such a settled seriousness that it was difficult to be sure whether he understood the jest and played up to it in that spirit of make-believe which had drawn down the King's anger or answered out of a dull uncomprehension.

The Justice of the King Hamilton Drummond 1896