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
They had fallen, not under the pressure of any new or unforeseen event, but by the evils connected with their personal situation, and their inaptitude for the parts they had undertaken to play.
From Memoirs To Illustrate The History Of My Time Volume 1 by John William Cole
He was generally esteemed on account of his learning, but his family suffered from his inaptitude for business, which was for us a question of life.
From The Jew by Jo?zef Ignacy Kraszewski
If a critical ear might cavil at the incompleteness or inaptitude of his similes, to the warm imagination and excited fancy of the Irish peasant they had no such blemishes.
From The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. II (of II) by Charles James Lever
Did Jones discern a similar inaptitude for bank service and hint things for the teller's benefit?
From A Canadian Bankclerk by J. P. Buschlen
