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
They had completely excused him from service on the basis of inaptitude.
From The Weakling by Dongen, H. R. van
He seems to have an organic inaptitude for combination.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 94, August, 1865 by Various
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 Burgon, John William
If a critical ear might cavil at the incompleteness or inaptitude of his similes, to the warm imagination and excited fancy of the Irish peasant they had no such blemishes.
From The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. II (of II) by Lever, Charles James
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