as in inability
the lack of sufficient ability, power, or means
the nurse's ineptitude made it clear that she would be happier in a different line of work
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Recent Examples of ineptitude
The league’s media partners chose to ignore the club’s persistent good luck, while often mischaracterizing the Chargers’ ineptitude — all the Chargering — as bad luck.
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Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Jan. 2025
Among them: Go on lots of tangents on topics like hobbies and your family, and feign technological ineptitude.
—Ali Watkins, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2024
The persistence of market failure and agency expertise narratives, despite political failures and bureaucratic ineptitude being the true obstacles.
—Clyde Wayne Crews Jr., Forbes, 12 Jan. 2025
Every time Freedom Caucus members gum up the works for Republicans, Jeffries is able to paint it as Republican ineptitude rather than having to answer questions about Democratic obstruction.
—Chris Roemer, Baltimore Sun, 9 Jan. 2025
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Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Jan. 2025
Among them: Go on lots of tangents on topics like hobbies and your family, and feign technological ineptitude.
—Ali Watkins, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2024
The persistence of market failure and agency expertise narratives, despite political failures and bureaucratic ineptitude being the true obstacles.
—Clyde Wayne Crews Jr., Forbes, 12 Jan. 2025
Every time Freedom Caucus members gum up the works for Republicans, Jeffries is able to paint it as Republican ineptitude rather than having to answer questions about Democratic obstruction.
—Chris Roemer, Baltimore Sun, 9 Jan. 2025
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“Ineptitude.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ineptitude. Accessed 9 Feb. 2025.
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