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

But an analogy more enlightening for showing the 41 inaptitude of the child for direct study of the laws of conduct is found in the case of speech.

From The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education by Palmer, Alice Freeman

Did Jones discern a similar inaptitude for bank service and hint things for the teller's benefit?

From A Canadian Bankclerk by Buschlen, J. P.

For absurdity and inaptitude, it stands, and must forever stand, without a parallel.

From Thoughts on African Colonization by Garrison, William Lloyd

So I floundered and fumbled and failed, through long years for the mere want of the small dose of cynical courage required for recognising frankly my congenital inaptitude.

From The Letters of Henry James (volume I) by James, Henry