inapplicability
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Government lawyers have defended the legality of these purchases—and the inapplicability of Carpenter—by arguing that the government is a customer like any other.
From Slate ● May 9, 2022
Their inapplicability deeply embarrasses us whenever we come to recognize that we are not who and what we say we are.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2017
What I am concerned to point out is simply the inapplicability of Newman's argument to one in Fitzjames's state of mind.
From The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I. A Judge of the High Court of Justice by Sir Leslie Stephen
As an example of the inapplicability of past experience, I may mention an argument against Republics which has been much used of late by the partisans of monarchy in France.
From The Intellectual Life by Philip Gilbert Hamerton
This inapplicability has been curiously manifested during the embarrassment caused by the late strikes of our workmen.
From Unto This Last and Other Essays on Political Economy by John Ruskin
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