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ineptitude noun incompetence, inefficiency, inability, incapacity, clumsiness, unfitness, gaucheness, inexpertness, unhandiness the tactical ineptitude of the commander Translations ineptitude [ɪˈneptɪtjuːd] ineptness [ɪˈneptnɪs] N [of person] → ineptitud f, incapacidad f; [of policies] → lo inadecuado ineptitude, ineptness n (of behaviour) → Ungeschicktheit f, → Unbeholfenheit f; (of remark) → Unangebrachtheit f, → Ungeschicktheit f; (of performance, display) → Ungeschicklichkeit f, → Stümperhaftigkeit f (pej); (of compliment, refusal, attempt) → Plumpheit f; (of comparison) → Ungeeignetheit f; (of person) (= clumsiness) → Ungeschick nt, → Unbeholfenheit f; (= slowness at learning) → Begriffsstutzigkeit f, → Ungelehrigkeit f ineptitude [ɪˈnɛptɪtjuːd] n (see adj) → inettitudine f, inopportunità, scarsa abilità ineptitude [ɪˈnɛptɪtjuːd] n (see adj) → inettitudine f, inopportunità, scarsa abilità How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Yet it would be difficult to say which is the worst of the two--Russian ineptitude or the German method of growing rich through honest toil. This stupid repetition was too incongruous in its ineptitude with the serious, brooding and enigmatic glance he turned upon his visitor. My ineptitude made me the butt of the looting, cursing, swash-buckling lot who formed the very irregular squadron which we joined; and it would have gone hard with me but for Raffles, who was soon the darling devil of them all, but never more loyally my friend. |
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