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 spectacle of an able and estimable man exhibiting such singular inaptitude for a province of study which, beyond all others, demands a clear head and a calm, dispassionate judgment,—creates distress.

From The Revision Revised by Burgon, John William

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

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

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