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Meanings of ineptitude in English

Spanish
torpeza

Unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training.

torpeza
Catalan
demèrit

Having no qualities that would render it valuable or useful.

demèrit
Synonyms
Examples for "awkwardness"
Examples for "awkwardness"
1
There was an awkwardness building; we were struggling to find common ground.
The Guardian
2
One of my colleagues was commenting on the awkwardness of this situation.
Fire With Fire
3
The duke was the first to relieve the awkwardness of the moment.
The Goose Girl
4
In movement and speech she was brisk to the point of awkwardness.
The Information Officer
5
That was the major reason I avoided you myself, to avoid awkwardness.
Knife of dreams
1
And that often meant that events moved with an extraordinarily deliberate slowness.
The Alchemyst
2
Perhaps more important was the mere slowness of the diffusion of ideas.
The Age of the Reformation
3
That first part of the long night march moved with maddening slowness.
Quest for honour
4
The market is going through a typical year-end bout of pre-holidy slowness.
Reuters
5
But that low-tech approach might flounder at businesses due to its slowness.
Radio NZ
1
The clumsiness of the style is exhibited in frequent mannerisms and repetitions.
Laws
2
Serendipitous clumsiness and outright blunders have pushed science ahead all through history.
The disappearing spoon: and other true tales of madness, love, a...
3
Aurore could feel Ti' Boo's impatience in the clumsiness of her movements.
Iron lace
4
His every effort is exerted to avoid intricacy and clumsiness in machinery.
Steam, Steel and Electricity
5
He has no sort of skill in fishing, but a peculiar clumsiness.
Memories of Hawthorne
1
In the fight between government ineptness and corporate greed, the public has lost.
Climbing Magazine
2
Under rather more difficult conditions, the Necrophorus repeats the ineptness of the Turkey.
The Wonders of Instinct: Chapters in the Psychology of Insects
3
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
5
If these two noticed Angel's growing social ineptness, he noticed their growing mental limitations.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman
1
On one occasion an instance of maladroitness was cited in reply.
The Reminiscences of an Astronomer
2
Generations of young officers had survived maladroitness and embarrassment, and no doubt Carson would as well.
In Enemy Hands
3
She marvelled at her maladroitness, which was the more singular because she had really written under strong emotion.
Hetty Wesley
4
Pardon my maladroitness, I pray you?
Joseph II. and His Court: An Historical Novel
5
With unerring maladroitness Pelgram had chosen the time of all others when his star was burning with its feeblest flame.
White Ashes

Inability to perform.

Usage of ineptitude in English
1
Ever believe that its actions were the product of ineptitude, not cruelty?
Imajica: Complete Edition
2
Chatillon was a fool; he has drowned himself in his own ineptitude.
Penguin Island
3
We need to confront corruption, patronage and ineptitude wherever we see it.
The South African
4
Made her wonder what Aimee had taken from him with her ineptitude.
No mercy
5
The whispering began: Was Blair's new hair a sign of fundamental ineptitude?
The new yorker
6
So many of us owe our existence to our parents fumbling ineptitude.
The new yorker
7
Norfolk's simplistic regime of washing, conditioners, and sturdy brushing was barbaric ineptitude.
The Naked God
8
It is a potential disaster that is being pursued with unwitting ineptitude.
The Guardian
9
Whether intentional or on their own merit, heckling usually accompanies such ineptitude.
Ebony
10
The full ineptitude of this conundrum only dawned upon me by degrees.
Alone
11
But that's the price to pay for ineptitude with man's oldest technology.
Wired
12
Just like some wack job to blame her ineptitude on someone else.
A killing night
13
The next two deliveries went for six and four, highlighting England's ineptitude.
The Guardian
14
Goalless, guileless, gormless, this was a game of sustained and tedious ineptitude.
The Irish Times
15
As for the ineptitude of the Feds, that was more misleading fear-mongering.
Exit strategy
16
Be a little more forgiving when it comes to someone else's ineptitude!
The South African
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Translations for ineptitude
Spanish
torpeza
Ineptitude through the time
Ineptitude across language varieties
Ireland
Common
United Kingdom
Less common
United States of America
Less common