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
All the characters in the book go mad, and the author's utter inaptitude for literature turns what might have been passable third-rate melodrama into a farce.
From The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces by Joyce Kilmer
Whether from personal cowardice, from inaptitude for command, or from political calculation, Orleans failed in his duty, and his failure determined the action.
From Poitiers by Hilaire Belloc
Thus his inaptitude in current speech was construed by them into a delicate flattery.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 89, March, 1865 by Various
But, in truth, considerable familiarity with these pursuits may easily co-exist with a natural inaptitude for their successful cultivation, which shall prove simply fatal.
From The Revision Revised by John William Burgon
