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

It likewise plainly follows, from the inaptitude of this argument to show that God is omnipresent, that thereby we can not prove infinity of power to belong to him.

From A Few Words About the Devil And Other Biographical Sketches and Essays by Bradlaugh, Charles

Which seems to have been owing to the want of irritability, or the inaptitude to action, of some classes of fibres which compose the retina.

From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus

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 Lever, Charles James

The spectacle of an able and estimable man exhibiting such singular inaptitude for a province of study which, beyond all others, demands a clear head and a calm, dispassionate judgment,—creates distress.

From The Revision Revised by Burgon, John William