inaptitude
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Origin of 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 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
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 Darwin, Erasmus
He seems to have an organic inaptitude for combination.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 94, August, 1865 by Various
Experience has demonstrated to us our inaptitude as financiers.
From The Jew by Kraszewski, Jo?zef Ignacy
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