inapplicability

Example Sentences

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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

Like the religious and emotional pacifism which preceded it, this rationalistic pacifism broke down through its sheer inapplicability to the facts of life.

From American World Policies by Weyl, Walter E.

He muttered to himself several assuaging observations to excuse a young lady half demented, and rejected them in a lump for their nonsensical inapplicability to Clara.

From The Egoist by Meredith, George

As an example of the inapplicability of past experience, I may mention an argument against Republics which has been much used of late by the partisans of monarchy in France.

From The Intellectual Life by Hamerton, Philip Gilbert