inapplicability

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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

I understand the last śloka as showing the inapplicability of "presumption" or arthá-patti.

From The Sarva-Darsana-Samgraha Review of the Different Systems of Hindu Philosophy by Acharya, Madhava

Like the religious and emotional pacifism which preceded it, this rationalistic pacifism broke down through its sheer inapplicability to the facts of life.

From American World Policies by Weyl, Walter E.

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