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ineptitude

/in-ep-ti-tood, -tyood, ih-nep-/US // ɪnˈɛp tɪˌtud, -ˌtyud, ɪˈnɛp- //

无能,不称职,笨拙,不称职的人

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : quality or condition of being inept.
    • : an inept act or remark.

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Examples

  • In a series of interviews, the most extensive since her termination, she described an agency mired in disorganization and ineptitude.

  • Compound it with exorbitant contracts acquired to appease a departing star and an inflexible roster that doesn’t make sense without its centerpiece, and that’s how franchises get sentenced to ineptitude and irrelevance.

  • That is often my initial assumption when I am accused of financial ineptitude.

  • It was the latest example of my complete ineptitude at terrestrial ecology.

  • Yet Barrios continues to show that his is not — either because he believes he is above the law, because of his own ineptitude, or both.

  • This pile of garbage and ineptitude is heading in one direction—toward a long-term crisis very costly to all.

  • These days we have no sense of when and how our current spate of bipartisan ineptitude will end.

  • Make no mistake: Kerry's alleged ineptitude pales in comparison to the haplessness of the two principals.

  • Limbaugh, for the record, thought Akin spoke with “glorious ineptitude.”

  • Their ineptitude required the seaman to abandon his post at the tiller and man an oar himself.

  • The seniors of our class are thoroughly reliable old fools, and Past Grand Masters in the art of ineptitude.

  • Before Agamemnon thus displayed his ineptitude, as he often does later, Thersites had no chance.

  • There were occasions indeed that could scarce be too cruel to punish properly certain examples of presumptuous ineptitude.

  • Anything,—anything to assuage in him that sense of ineptitude, of being ignored, a titled nonentity!

  • And it was the ineptitude of the administrative chiefs that made the militia at once ineffective and abhorred.