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Meanings of ineptness in anglès

espanyol
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Unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training.

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The quality of having the wrong properties for a specific purpose.

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Usage of ineptness in anglès
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In the fight between government ineptness and corporate greed, the public has lost.
Climbing Magazine
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Under rather more difficult conditions, the Necrophorus repeats the ineptness of the Turkey.
The Wonders of Instinct: Chapters in the Psychology of Insects
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But Chechenya has become the symbol of his presidency's ineptness and loss of direction.
The Irish Times
4
Heed well to the end that no ineptness may arise.
Kai Lung's Golden Hours
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If these two noticed Angel's growing social ineptness, he noticed their growing mental limitations.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman
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Phil joked with Henry about the President's legendary technical ineptness.
Terminal Compromise
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Remy pinched the bridge of her nose, stemming off a headache from my ineptness.
Gentlemen prefer succubi
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Police ineptness might take the form of a lackadaisical approach or a bumbling bull-in-the-china-shop approach.
Think of a number
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The very ineptness of the entertainment actually hurt one.
The Four Feathers
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This was his argument to himself made more to excuse his social ineptness than benevolence.
Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America
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Was he spared only through bureaucratic ineptness, sheer chance, repeated fortuitous slippings through the cracks?
The gates of november
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Digging my fingers into the (startlingly robust) keys mixed familiarity with sudden ineptness.
BBC
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I had to demonstrate her ineptness to Hubert.
206 Bones
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Why feel sorry that a multi-millionaire's dream has died given its largely due to his own ineptness?
Ebony
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Mortified by the consciousness of his own ineptness-orineptitude-thefellow was simply trying to hamper and obstruct.
Right Ho, Jeeves
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Her own team barely kept pace with her-thoughthere were no more comic mishaps, no more inexplicable ineptness.
She Commands Me and I Obey
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espanyol
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Ineptness through the time