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
I call this part of your pamphlet “strange,” because it displays such singular inaptitude to appreciate the force of Evidence.
From The Revision Revised by John William Burgon
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
The spectacle of an able and estimable man exhibiting such singular inaptitude for a province of study which, beyond all others, demands a clear head and a calm, dispassionate judgment,—creates distress.
From The Revision Revised by John William Burgon
The Empress was already foreboding her fate; there was the stiffness of inaptitude about everything, even the amusement, and the languid weariness of the ladies was an unforgiven imperial sin.
From The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. III. (of IV.) by William Milligan Sloane
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