inapplicability

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Government lawyers have defended the legality of these purchases—and the inapplicability of Carpenter—by arguing that the government is a customer like any other.

From Slate • May 9, 2022

Their inapplicability deeply embarrasses us whenever we come to recognize that we are not who and what we say we are.

From Salon • Sep. 13, 2017

This inapplicability has been curiously manifested during the embarrassment caused by the late strikes of our workmen.

From Unto This Last and Other Essays on Political Economy by Ruskin, John

For the common sense, although it may see the practical inapplicability of the dictates of the imagination or abstract reason, yet cannot help submitting to them.

From Literary Remains, Volume 1 by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

"An English peasant," as Mr Scott has well remarked, "appears to spurn courtesy from him, in a bitter sense of its inapplicability to his condition."

From Travels in France during the years 1814-15 Comprising a residence at Paris, during the stay of the allied armies, and at Aix, at the period of the landing of Bonaparte, in two volumes. by Alison, Archibald, Sir