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Meanings of ineptness in anglès
espanyol
torpeza Unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training.
català
inèpcia The quality of having the wrong properties for a specific purpose.
Sinònims
Examples for "awkwardness"
Examples for "awkwardness"
1
There was an awkwardness building; we were struggling to find common ground.
2
One of my colleagues was commenting on the awkwardness of this situation.
3
The duke was the first to relieve the awkwardness of the moment.
4
In movement and speech she was brisk to the point of awkwardness.
5
That was the major reason I avoided you myself, to avoid awkwardness.
1
And that often meant that events moved with an extraordinarily deliberate slowness.
2
Perhaps more important was the mere slowness of the diffusion of ideas.
3
That first part of the long night march moved with maddening slowness.
4
The market is going through a typical year-end bout of pre-holidy slowness.
5
But that low-tech approach might flounder at businesses due to its slowness.
1
The clumsiness of the style is exhibited in frequent mannerisms and repetitions.
2
Serendipitous clumsiness and outright blunders have pushed science ahead all through history.
3
Aurore could feel Ti' Boo's impatience in the clumsiness of her movements.
4
His every effort is exerted to avoid intricacy and clumsiness in machinery.
5
He has no sort of skill in fishing, but a peculiar clumsiness.
1
Ever believe that its actions were the product of ineptitude, not cruelty?
2
Chatillon was a fool; he has drowned himself in his own ineptitude.
3
We need to confront corruption, patronage and ineptitude wherever we see it.
4
Made her wonder what Aimee had taken from him with her ineptitude.
5
The whispering began: Was Blair's new hair a sign of fundamental ineptitude?
1
On one occasion an instance of maladroitness was cited in reply.
2
Generations of young officers had survived maladroitness and embarrassment, and no doubt Carson would as well.
3
She marvelled at her maladroitness, which was the more singular because she had really written under strong emotion.
4
Pardon my maladroitness, I pray you?
5
With unerring maladroitness Pelgram had chosen the time of all others when his star was burning with its feeblest flame.
Usage of ineptness in anglès
1
In the fight between government ineptness and corporate greed, the public has lost.
2
Under rather more difficult conditions, the Necrophorus repeats the ineptness of the Turkey.
3
But Chechenya has become the symbol of his presidency's ineptness and loss of direction.
4
Heed well to the end that no ineptness may arise.
5
If these two noticed Angel's growing social ineptness, he noticed their growing mental limitations.
6
Phil joked with Henry about the President's legendary technical ineptness.
7
Remy pinched the bridge of her nose, stemming off a headache from my ineptness.
8
Police ineptness might take the form of a lackadaisical approach or a bumbling bull-in-the-china-shop approach.
9
The very ineptness of the entertainment actually hurt one.
10
This was his argument to himself made more to excuse his social ineptness than benevolence.
11
Was he spared only through bureaucratic ineptness, sheer chance, repeated fortuitous slippings through the cracks?
12
Digging my fingers into the (startlingly robust) keys mixed familiarity with sudden ineptness.
13
I had to demonstrate her ineptness to Hubert.
14
Why feel sorry that a multi-millionaire's dream has died given its largely due to his own ineptness?
15
Mortified by the consciousness of his own ineptness-orineptitude-thefellow was simply trying to hamper and obstruct.
16
Her own team barely kept pace with her-thoughthere were no more comic mishaps, no more inexplicable ineptness.
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Ineptness through the time