ineptitude
[in-ep-ti-tood, -tyood, ih-nep-]
- quality or condition of being inept.
- an inept act or remark.
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Origin of ineptitude
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Examples from the Web for ineptitude
Contemporary Examples
This pile of garbage and ineptitude is heading in one direction—toward a long-term crisis very costly to all.
Their ineptitude required the seaman to abandon his post at the tiller and man an oar himself.
It can just about compensate for any degree of ineptitude when running for office.
His reputation for ineptitude was enhanced when his secret testimony to the special tribunal recently leaked to the press.
The episodes conclude with the dates, which usually go badly—often thanks to the men's ineptitude at basic human decency.
Historical Examples
There's a similar touch of ineptitude (senility, perhaps) in the Memorabilia, ad fin.
CyropaediaXenophon
Clinton's position was difficult but he was saved by Lee's ineptitude.
Washington and his Comrades in ArmsGeorge Wrong
To them, in their then ineptitude, what I shall say now would have been unintelligible.
The Crack of DoomRobert Cromie
Besides, it roused his gorge to feel that here was an example of British ineptitude.
The Great Airship.F. S. Brereton
Gordon was simply sacrificed to ineptitude in high quarters at home.
An AutobiographyElizabeth Butler
Word Origin and History for ineptitude
n.
1610s, from French ineptitude, from Latin ineptitudo, noun of quality from ineptus "unsuitable, absurd" (see inept).
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