inaptitude
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Origin of inaptitude
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I visit Marconi less often now, but more from inaptitude than fear.
From New York Times ● May 24, 2022
If his hand leave its proper course, whether of set purpose or through inaptitude, his work must suffer.
From The Technique of Fiction Writing by Robert Saunders Dowst
He was generally esteemed on account of his learning, but his family suffered from his inaptitude for business, which was for us a question of life.
From The Jew by Jo?zef Ignacy Kraszewski
Which seems to have been owing to the want of irritability, or the inaptitude to action, of some classes of fibres which compose the retina.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
His father was a bookseller; held, too, some small magistracy; was eminently respectable; loved books as well as sold them, and had a corresponding inaptitude for business.
From English Lands Letters and Kings Queen Anne and the Georges by Donald G. Mitchell
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