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

The English officers were loud in condemning Austrian slowness—the inaptitude they exhibited to profit by a success, and the over-caution which made them, even in victory, so careful of their own safety.

From Maurice Tiernay Soldier of Fortune by Lever, Charles James

You are a French officer, sir," said he, "and I rely upon your honor that, whether from the ignorance or inaptitude of that gentleman, no blame may attach itself to me in this business.

From The Daltons, Volume II (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life by Lever, Charles James

For absurdity and inaptitude, it stands, and must forever stand, without a parallel.

From Thoughts on African Colonization by Garrison, William Lloyd

All the characters in the book go mad, and the author's utter inaptitude for literature turns what might have been passable third-rate melodrama into a farce.

From The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces by Kilmer, Joyce