What's the difference between ineptitude and inertitude?
Ineptitude
Definition:
(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.