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Meanings of ineptness in English

Spanish
torpeza

Unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training.

torpeza
Catalan
inèpcia

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

inèpcia
Usage of ineptness in English
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
6
Phil joked with Henry about the President's legendary technical ineptness.
Terminal Compromise
7
Remy pinched the bridge of her nose, stemming off a headache from my ineptness.
Gentlemen prefer succubi
8
Police ineptness might take the form of a lackadaisical approach or a bumbling bull-in-the-china-shop approach.
Think of a number
9
The very ineptness of the entertainment actually hurt one.
The Four Feathers
10
This was his argument to himself made more to excuse his social ineptness than benevolence.
Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America
11
Was he spared only through bureaucratic ineptness, sheer chance, repeated fortuitous slippings through the cracks?
The gates of november
12
Digging my fingers into the (startlingly robust) keys mixed familiarity with sudden ineptness.
BBC
13
I had to demonstrate her ineptness to Hubert.
206 Bones
14
Why feel sorry that a multi-millionaire's dream has died given its largely due to his own ineptness?
Ebony
15
Mortified by the consciousness of his own ineptness-orineptitude-thefellow was simply trying to hamper and obstruct.
Right Ho, Jeeves
16
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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Spanish
torpeza
Ineptness through the time