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

His father was a bookseller; held, too, some small magistracy; was eminently respectable; loved books as well as sold them, and had a corresponding inaptitude for business.

From English Lands Letters and Kings Queen Anne and the Georges by Mitchell, Donald G.

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

I have already told you so, and my own inaptitude for military duty has nothing to do or to say in the question.

From Autobiographical Reminiscences with Family Letters and Notes on Music by Gounod, Charles

The English officers were loud in condemning Austrian slowness—the inaptitude they exhibited to profit by a success, and the over-caution which made them, even in victory, so careful of their own safety.

From Maurice Tiernay Soldier of Fortune by Lever, Charles James