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US
/ˌɪˈnɛptnɪs/
]
[ UK /ɪnˈɛptnəs/ ]
[ UK /ɪnˈɛptnəs/ ]
NOUN
- the quality of having the wrong properties for a specific purpose
- unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training
How To Use ineptness In A Sentence
- It would be easy to castigate York for ineptness but their only shortcomings were lack of size and speed.
- Do you get curt with people because you are frustrated with what you perceive as their ineptness ?
- A tragic turn of events, but made funny by the fact that it happens to children, whose ineptness at life leads them into all sorts of mayhem and funniness as a result.
- Despite a few bike thieves and local authority ineptness, the park was a popular retreat relatively free of junkies and drunks. THE MANANA MAN
- Scunnered with the malign Scottish press, scunnered with his own backbenchers, scunnered with the amateurism and ineptness of the parliament.
- The closer analogue is the criminal ineptness of Tsar Nicholas II and his Generals in the Russo-Japanese War 1904-05. War in Lebanon
- Most ‘premarital counseling’ is too short and surface-level to change the interpersonal ineptness and emotional deafness that foredooms millions of marriages to failure.
- I have not read the paper, but I hope that the term "mathematical masturbation" is in response to poor modeling, or even misuse of math, and not due to the writer's "mathematical ineptness. Promising Abstract, Disappointing Paper, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty