incapable

Example Sentences

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If the trend continues, we are heading for a crisis: a generation of employees who never become seasoned insiders, incapable of either collaborating or leading.

From The Wall Street Journal

Nineteenth-century news media perpetuated the belief that young women were passive, incapable of deep thought or deep deception.

From Literature

And yet I remained, daily, mysteriously incapable of doing so.

From Salon

You are not constitutionally incapable of washing a carrot.

From Salon

Now, the convicted killer argues that his "torturous and inhumane" detention conditions during his trial made him incapable of making rational decisions when he pleaded guilty, according to a court synopsis of the case.

From Barron's