inapplicability

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

For the common sense, although it may see the practical inapplicability of the dictates of the imagination or abstract reason, yet cannot help submitting to them.

From Literary Remains, Volume 1 by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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)

In his replies Job points out their inapplicability to the supreme problem of which he is the embodiment.

From The Origin and Permanent Value of the Old Testament by Kent, Charles Foster