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

If his hand leave its proper course, whether of set purpose or through inaptitude, his work must suffer.

From The Technique of Fiction Writing by Dowst, Robert Saunders

His father was a bookseller; held, too, some small magistracy; was eminently respectable; loved books as well as sold them, and had a corresponding inaptitude for business.

From English Lands Letters and Kings Queen Anne and the Georges by Mitchell, Donald G.

I call this part of your pamphlet “strange,” because it displays such singular inaptitude to appreciate the force of Evidence.

From The Revision Revised by Burgon, John William

He seems to have an organic inaptitude for combination.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 94, August, 1865 by Various