incapable
adjective
not capable.
incapably
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a word derived from
incapable.
Example Sentences
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What a hardened rogue you are!" thought Dr. Upround; "how feebly and incapably I must have put it!
From Mary Anerley : a Yorkshire Tale by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore
The lights were extinguished incapably by the rain which fell continually in his presence, but from his body there proceeded a luminous breath which sufficiently revealed the various incidents.
From The Mirror of Kong Ho by Ernest Bramah
Peach-bloom held against her cheek withers incapably by comparison.
From Kai Lung's Golden Hours by Ernest Bramah
Mrs. Coolahan had probably assumed that either Julia was incapably drunk, or had been dismissed without benefit of clergy; at all events she had recognised that diplomatically it was correct to change the conversation.
From All on the Irish Shore Irish Sketches by E. Oe. (Edith Oenone) Somerville
"What you have somewhat incapably overlooked, Ming-shu, is the fact that I never greet this intelligent and painstaking young man without reminding him of the imminence of his fate and of his suitability for it."
From Kai Lung's Golden Hours by Ernest Bramah
