weak-talented

Updated: May 10, 2025

'Yes, replied the clerk, as the hour struck. 'The fact is, sir, he is a deppity, and apt to be rather wandering in his wits as regards time and such like, which hev stood in the way of the man's getting a benefit. But no doubt he'll come. 'The regular incumbent is away, then? 'He's gone for his bare pa'son's fortnight, that's all; and we was forced to put up with a weak-talented man or none.

Thomas Hardy - Two on a Tower