inaptitude
Example Sentences
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I visit Marconi less often now, but more from inaptitude than fear.
From New York Times ● May 24, 2022
The assertion that Mr. Tennyson was born with an inaptitude for musical verse, though I conceive it to be very wide of the mark, I can at least understand.
From The Bridling of Pegasus Prose Papers on Poetry by Alfred Austin
So I floundered and fumbled and failed, through long years for the mere want of the small dose of cynical courage required for recognising frankly my congenital inaptitude.
From The Letters of Henry James (volume I) by Henry James
They had fallen, not under the pressure of any new or unforeseen event, but by the evils connected with their personal situation, and their inaptitude for the parts they had undertaken to play.
From Memoirs To Illustrate The History Of My Time Volume 1 by John William Cole
If a critical ear might cavil at the incompleteness or inaptitude of his similes, to the warm imagination and excited fancy of the Irish peasant they had no such blemishes.
From The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. II (of II) by Charles James Lever
