inapplicability
- a word derived from inapplicable.
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
To say nothing about the inapplicability of this rule to feminine genders, and plural numbers, the whole history of the Indo-Germanic languages is against it.
From A Handbook of the English Language by Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)
The origin of the term Gros Ventres is somewhat obscure, and various observers have pointed out its inapplicability, especially to the well-formed Hidatsa tribesmen.
From The Siouan Indians by McGee, W. J. (William John)
One of the evils of an abstract or remote external aim in education is that its very inapplicability in practice is likely to react into a haphazard snatching at immediate conditions.
From Democracy and Education: an introduction to the philosophy of education by Dewey, John
