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 the Roman had a real inaptitude for the speculative: to him nothing was real that was not practical.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 4, September, 1850 by Various

If his hand leave its proper course, whether of set purpose or through inaptitude, his work must suffer.

From The Technique of Fiction Writing by Dowst, Robert Saunders

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

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