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ineptness
noun
The quality or degree of being inept.
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It's difficult to judge something that's trying to mock something inept; is its own ineptness sheer genius or just ineptness?
The inept, ordinary Udo will persistently reveal not only his ineptness and ordinariness but his jerky, irrational fears and suspicions, his slow, uncomprehended descent into a kind of madness.
It could also be that Rapids are using ineptness as a clever way to save the team money.
It seemed to matter at the time but thanks to the ineptness of his fellow batsmen – and the resolution of Sangakkara – it did not.
Ineptness at the Rural Payments Agency, the bit of government charged with distributing agricultural subsidies, led to seriously delayed payment for hundreds of farmers and the resignation of its boss in 2006.
Yet the Socialist candidate, Patrick Mennucci, came third.In this section The battle for Turkey's future Of tweets and twits 1984 in 2014 Echoes of the Sudetenland A little local difficulty Putin's arrow ReprintsThis was Mr Hollande's first mid-term test, and voters made clear their exasperation at his failure to cut unemployment or revive growth, and at his government's ineptness.
A more plausible explanation may be the ineptness of Chinese diplomacy, made up so often of hectoring and threats.Exhibit one for China's conspiracy theorists is the award of the Nobel peace prize to Liu Xiaobo, a jailed activist.
If that trail pans out, then Mr Tusk will be able to deflect public anger from the obscenity-laced conversations of his senior ministers and the ineptness of secret services, who should have prevented them from being bugged, and instead blame Poland's age-old enemy.
Disaster aid flows to hard-hit countries, maybe debt relief later, but the iron laws of global economics, responding to the ineptness of the world's economic decision-makers, can at any time take away—often to rich countries' benefit far larger sums.
But a combination of public opposition and organisational ineptness has left the ID- card scheme floundering.In theory, a nationwide chain of 69 "interview centres" should now be interrogating and taking fingerprints from the 600,000 people who apply for or renew a passport every year, so that their details can be added to the ID-card database.
Besides these failings, Mr Estrada's ineptness and his kindness to cronies are doing severe and obvious harm to the economy—such as his decision to withdraw landing rights to a Taiwanese airline, benefiting the failing domestic airline of Lucio Tan, a close pal.
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