inapplicability

Example Sentences

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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

The last-named incident did not affect Mrs. Mayton deeply, perhaps on the score of inapplicability to the question before her.

From Helen's Babies by Habberton, John

Quite apart from the inapplicability of the Wyrons' experience to her own case, she now wondered whether theirs had in fact been experience at all.

From A Crooked Mile by Onions, Oliver [pseud.]

I suppose the truth is, gentlemen, that the English Government felt the utter inapplicability of that law to a case of this kind.

From Trial of the Officers and Crew of the Privateer Savannah, on the Charge of Piracy, in the United States Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York by Warburton, A. F.