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

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 Belloc, Hilaire

They had fallen, not under the pressure of any new or unforeseen event, but by the evils connected with their personal situation, and their inaptitude for the parts they had undertaken to play.

From Memoirs To Illustrate The History Of My Time Volume 1 by Cole, John William

He seems to have an organic inaptitude for combination.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 94, August, 1865 by Various

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.