[
US
/ˌɪˈnɛptɪˌtud/
]
[ UK /ɪnˈɛptɪtjˌuːd/ ]
[ UK /ɪnˈɛptɪtjˌuːd/ ]
NOUN
- unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training
-
having no qualities that would render it valuable or useful
the drill sergeant's intent was to convince all the recruits of their worthlessness
How To Use ineptitude In A Sentence
- They are now more likely to call a product obstreperous than blame themselves for their ineptitude.
- Then the regional financial crisis hit and suddenly the air was full of accusations of bureaucratic ineptitude, corruption and outright dereliction of duty.
- Yet ineptitude at the back could not entirely explain away this truly awe-inspiring spectacle.
- As such, he was utterly made for the job, as his combination of physical clumsiness, verbal ineptitude and unwaveringly glaikit expression must have made even the most gauche and pallid code-cruncher feel like a cocksure sophisticate. Be My Enemy
- His tightly honed but grandiloquent rhetoric rang like gold on marble, even when it was covering gross political ineptitude.
- well-meaning ineptitude that rises to empyreal absurdity
- It was a shame that the ineptitude failed to spark more goalmouth action. Times, Sunday Times
- It was envisioned, the story goes, as a short-term, inconsequential distraction, not a lasting symbol of the Tory campaign's ineptitude and crudity.
- His contempt for ineptitude as well as his disdain for those who held opinions contrary to his was legendary.
- Far from being cynical spoilsmen or naive incompetents, individuals whose presidencies provide studies in ineptitude, Garfield and Arthur emerge as men of considerable ability.
