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

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

The assertion that Mr. Tennyson was born with an inaptitude for musical verse, though I conceive it to be very wide of the mark, I can at least understand.

From The Bridling of Pegasus Prose Papers on Poetry by Austin, Alfred

He seems to have an organic inaptitude for combination.

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

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

From Thoughts on African Colonization by Garrison, William Lloyd