Crossword clues for ineptness
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ineptness \In*ept"ness\, n. Unfitness; ineptitude.
The feebleness and miserable ineptness of infancy.
--Dr. H. More.
Wiktionary
n. The quality or degree of being inept.
WordNet
n. unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training [syn: awkwardness, clumsiness, ineptitude, maladroitness, slowness]
the quality of having the wrong properties for a specific purpose [syn: unsuitability, unsuitableness] [ant: suitability, suitability]
Usage examples of "ineptness".
He blamed the sciences for re-establishing the mirage of truth, and still more the pseudomorph subjects like anthropology and economics whose adepts substituted inapplicable statistics for the ineptness of their insights.
I found just such a book deep within the Well of Lost Plots among failed attempts at prose and half-finished epics of such dazzling ineptness that they would never see the light of day.
When oldenough for active service, he had marched with a few patrolsin safe areas, but when the officers in command had politelycomplained about his ineptness, the boy had gratefullybecome a permanent fixture in his father's court.
In Frog Eggs I see fragments -- distorted, caricatured by our ineptness and ignorance, but also by our knowledge, which is skewed toward destruction -- fragments of what the letter provided for by its very delivery.
In the night he suddenly woke up twitching in the brain and poured out long speeches from the Greek orators, speeches he had never been able to remember as a boy, an ineptness that caused him to be put back a form in the Boston Latin School.