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

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

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

From Thoughts on African Colonization by Garrison, William Lloyd

Thus his inaptitude in current speech was construed by them into a delicate flattery.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 89, March, 1865 by Various

They had completely excused him from service on the basis of inaptitude.

From The Weakling by Dongen, H. R. van