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

The last-named incident did not affect Mrs. Mayton deeply, perhaps on the score of inapplicability to the question before her.

From Helen's Babies by Habberton, John

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)

As an example of the inapplicability of past experience, I may mention an argument against Republics which has been much used of late by the partisans of monarchy in France.

From The Intellectual Life by Hamerton, Philip Gilbert