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 Empress was already foreboding her fate; there was the stiffness of inaptitude about everything, even the amusement, and the languid weariness of the ladies was an unforgiven imperial sin.
From The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. III. (of IV.) by William Milligan Sloane
We cannot add one moment to its eternity, nor by our inaptitude diminish the proper glory of our art.
From Charles Auchester, Volume 1 of 2 by Elizabeth Sheppard
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 Alfred Austin
