(n.) The quality of being inept; unfitness; inaptitude; unsuitableness.
(n.) Absurdity; nonsense; foolishness.
Example Sentences:
(1) The fact that Moyes did nothing to stem his threat down the right by leaving Shinji Kagawa, who offered no protection to Alexander Büttner, on too long was one illustration of a concerning tactical ineptitude.
(2) But the story of our time, I think, is as much a story about struggling with ineptitude as struggling with ignorance.
(3) In their crass off-pitch antics as well as their humiliating ineptitude, Les Bleus have reminded us of an important truth.
(4) Almost as shocking as Dortmund’s ineptitude on Saturday was the tired emptiness Klopp radiated after the final whistle.
(5) The second reason, however, they called “ineptitude”, meaning that the knowledge exists but an individual or a group of individuals fail to apply that knowledge correctly.
(6) There is, however, an alternative story of the French revolution, no less timely: it reads like a case study of moderate liberals’ ineptitude in times of crisis.
(7) Over and over, western intervention ends up - whether by ineptitude or design - sowing the seeds of further intervention.
(8) Whatever Hodgson's critics may say, he cannot be held responsible for this kind of ineptitude.
(9) The latter is the sort of thing the royals have to endure on tours: a strangely artificial demonstration of ordinariness at which they are either supposed to show surprising aptitude or – all the better for the media – hopeless ineptitude.
(10) The manager's expression as Jordan Henderson slammed an equaliser past Given after City had defended a corner with comprehensive ineptitude was a mask of pain.
(11) He is remarkable for his ineptitude.” “I suggest that you know perfectly well how addressing an officer as PC Plod what would have been his reaction.” “You accept a possibility that you said that to him and if you did as I suggest you did, it shows a complete insensitivity to the police providing your protection.” Later, Browne asked him about another incident, when a trip from Kenya to Somalia was delayed and he was said to have launched into a foul-mouthed tirade and “exploded”.
(12) Where once it was assumed that the person advertising themselves awkwardly on a screen was there because of social ineptitude, it's now much more common – and accurate – to assume that they are instead working 13-hour days in order to convert their unpaid internship into an underpaid graduate job.
(13) Their cruelty was abetted by the apparent ineptitude of local authorities, which failed to intervene at several junctures.
(14) A sensationalist and scruple-free press seems eager to collude in their “noble lie”: that a Middle Eastern militia, thriving on the utter ineptitude of its local adversaries, poses an “existential risk” to an island fortress that saw off Napoleon and Hitler .
(15) But Boko Haram not only fended off the army’s offensive, it ended up being emboldened by the obvious ineptitude of the Nigerian forces.
(16) Just 18 months into his term he is routinely accused of drift, ineptitude and attention-seeking – while at the same time dodging scrutiny.
(17) Blair failed to add that the military and political ineptitude of the US and – in four southern provinces – British occupation of Iraq gave the insurgents, domestic and foreign, fertile ground on which to operate.
(18) Without his money and the ineptitude of his challengers it is questionable whether he would have done so.
(19) This, and her highly assertive manner in debate, quickly made her an influential figure behind the scenes, particularly as Haig's ineptitudes began to irritate the president.
(20) And weren't particularly impressive; it was Holland's ineptitude that made them look good.
Ineptness
Definition:
(n.) Unfitness; ineptitude.
Example Sentences:
(1) Plibersek’s spokesman said on Friday: “Who is Mr Brandis to dictate the language on the Middle East peace negotiations?” The spokesman said the intervention this week amounted to “another foreign policy embarrassment for the Abbott government, which is why [Brandis] was forced by the foreign minister and the Foreign Affairs Department to rush out a statement about his inept pronouncements.” Labor ran into its own controversy earlier this year when Bill Shorten appeared to telegraph a shift in policy around the description of settlements in a major speech to the Zionist Federation of Australia.
(2) Ever since the ex-PD leader Walter Veltroni started praising President Kennedy as a way to jettison communism, this has been an abiding theme, manifesting itself institutionally in the desperate attempt to engineer a US-style two-party system through breathtakingly inept electoral reforms – the latest one, the " Porcellum " (after porcello, swine), was behind the impasse earlier this year.
(3) The head seems to float uncomfortably above the collar, while the doublet is ineptly managed.
(4) Its structure was elucidated by IR, UV, FAB-MS, and various NMR spectra (including NOE, BBD, INEPT, SR, COSY, NOESY etc.
(5) Their barking drew an entertaining rebuke from Ta-Nehisi Coates to which we cannot resist linking, however: Carlson's descent from reasonably credible magazine journalist to inept race hustler is well mapped territory.
(6) I have to say that arranging your move so that you actually become homeless for a month is pretty much the definition of inept.
(7) The structures of the loureirins 1-4 were elucidated through interpretation of their spectroscopic data, with particular use being made of the selective INEPT nmr technique.
(8) As an inexperienced and diplomatically inept minister in the early 1970s, Thatcher clashed with what was later called "the education establishment".
(9) The government has handled the "£9,000 student fees" affair ineptly, near paralysed by political correctness.
(10) "Mr Hester's job at RBS in the last three years has not been made any easier by the incompetence of EU politicians, whose inept and moribund approach to the sovereign debt crisis has trashed the banking sector's value.
(11) spectrum were given for these dolichols by using model compounds and INEPT (insensitive nuclei enhanced by polarization transfer) measurement.
(12) The basic principles applied are the VOSY pulse scheme for volume selection and the INEPT sequence for homonuclear polarization transfer from the CH to the CH3 groups.
(13) "The crumbling of key pillars of Israel's security … coupled with the most diplomatically inept and strategically incompetent government in Israel's history have put Israel in a very dangerous situation," declared New York Times columnist Tom Friedman last month.
(14) So could I counter with a 'tactically inept' regarding England?
(15) But their attempts are suspiciously theatrical and inept – with the "demonstrators" at one point advancing in a hopeless Roman-style assault.
(16) Congress granted qualified immunity from liability for peer review participation to physicians, osteopaths and dentists, created a national practitioner data bank to track inept, incompetent or unprofessional physicians, and enacted procedural rules for due process, privilege restrictions, and reporting and disbursement of information.
(17) The INEPT (insensitive nucleus enhancement by polarization transfer) experiment [Morris, G. A., & Freeman, R. (1979) J.
(18) If you think Isis arose from the US invasion of Iraq, not the vacuum created by its inept occupation and premature withdrawal, good luck again.
(19) Friedman and Schwartz made a convincing case that it was inept monetary management by the Federal Reserve Bank that was the main culprit.
(20) The present Queen’s legacy may look very different once the future of the monarchy is in the inept hands of her eldest son.