Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being inapplicable; unsuitableness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality of being inapplicable; unfitness; inapplicableness.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun uncountable The state of being
inapplicable - noun countable Something inapplicable
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun irrelevance by virtue of being inapplicable to the matter at hand
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Examples
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Davis, demonstrates the inapplicability of the VRA today, the authors seem unconcerned that, paralleling their proffered criticism of the VRA itself, they are applying a ten-year-old decision written for a different era and for vastly different circumstances.
Thomas A. Saenz: Argument That Voting Rights Act Is Dead in Los Angeles Demonstrates the Opposite Thomas A. Saenz 2011
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Davis, demonstrates the inapplicability of the VRA today, the authors seem unconcerned that, paralleling their proffered criticism of the VRA itself, they are applying a ten-year-old decision written for a different era and for vastly different circumstances.
Thomas A. Saenz: Argument That Voting Rights Act Is Dead in Los Angeles Demonstrates the Opposite Thomas A. Saenz 2011
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What's so remarkable about the current events in Egypt are the inapplicability of our categories to them.
Haroon Moghul: The Revolutionary Fashion Police: What Not to Wear When Egypt's Government Goes Down Haroon Moghul 2011
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What's so remarkable about the current events in Egypt are the inapplicability of our categories to them.
Haroon Moghul: The Revolutionary Fashion Police: What Not to Wear When Egypt's Government Goes Down Haroon Moghul 2011
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Davis, demonstrates the inapplicability of the VRA today, the authors seem unconcerned that, paralleling their proffered criticism of the VRA itself, they are applying a ten-year-old decision written for a different era and for vastly different circumstances.
Thomas A. Saenz: Argument That Voting Rights Act Is Dead in Los Angeles Demonstrates the Opposite Thomas A. Saenz 2011
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For me, the FIRST mindblowing thing I noticed was the inapplicability of Mammoth here. 21 stories is NOT mammoth.
TOC: The Mammoth Book of Mindblowing SF edited by Mike Ashley 2009
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Any analysis into the purpose or legislative history would establish its inapplicability even without resort to the rule of leniency.
The Volokh Conspiracy » It’s Not the Crime, It’s the Cover-Up — Sestak Edition 2010
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Any analysis into the purpose or legislative history would establish its inapplicability even without resort to the rule of leniency.
The Volokh Conspiracy » It’s Not the Crime, It’s the Cover-Up — Sestak Edition 2010
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We'd lose some things due to inapplicability of the argument without the value judgment, but we'd also be less reversible.
More On Mythicism James F. McGrath 2010
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It's wonderful how you cite international law when it suits you and excuse its inapplicability when it suits you too.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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