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

Ignavia is inaptitude for any noble action, and particularly for deeds of valor; timiditas is, under certain circumstances, excusable; ignavia is absolutely blamable.

From Döderlein's Hand-book of Latin Synonymes by Döderlein, Ludwig

Thus his inaptitude in current speech was construed by them into a delicate flattery.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 89, March, 1865 by Various

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 Cole, John William

Which seems to have been owing to the want of irritability, or the inaptitude to action, of some classes of fibres which compose the retina.

From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus