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How to pronounce ineptness in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms awkwardness, clumsiness, ineptitude, maladroitness, slowness
Type of unskillfulness
Has types rustiness
Derivation inept
Type Words
Synonyms unsuitability, unsuitableness
Type of quality
Has types unworthiness, inconvenience, inappropriateness, unfitness
Derivation inept

Examples of ineptness

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Will it be a pro-Republican hurricane, revealing the administration's ineptness?
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The charges were dismissed by Judge Lucas because of Smith's judicial ineptness.
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I pointed to his 20-32 record as a starter and his ineptness in marquee games.
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He got back his money, although not the admission of ineptness he was seeking.
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The ineptness of this bureaucracy was on display last month after 1.8 million lbs.
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The ugliness of Going Places is not the result of ineptness or miscalculation.
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Considering his age, size and fielding ineptness, I don't think the Bucs lost much.
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The suit claimed the event never came off because of the center's ineptness.
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Miami coach Shane Montgomery is mystified at what's causing the ineptness.
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More examples
  • Awkwardness: unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training
  • Unsuitability: the quality of having the wrong properties for a specific purpose
  • (inept) awkward: not elegant or graceful in expression; "an awkward prose style"; "a clumsy apology"; "his cumbersome writing style"; "if the rumor is true, can anything be more inept than to repeat it now?"
  • (inept) feckless: generally incompetent and ineffectual; "feckless attempts to repair the plumbing"; "inept handling of the account"
  • (inept) revealing lack of perceptiveness or judgment or finesse; "an inept remark"; "it was tactless to bring up those disagreeable"
  • (ineptly) with ineptitude; in an incompetent manner; "he performed his functions ineptly"
  • A social skill is any skill facilitating interaction and communication with others. Social rules and relations are created, communicated, and changed in verbal and nonverbal ways. The process of learning such skills is called socialization. ...
  • (INEPT) Insensitive Nuclei Enhanced by Polarization Transfer (INEPT) is a signal enhancement method used in NMR spectroscopy which involves the transfer of nuclear spin polarization from spins with large Boltzmann population differences to nuclear spins of interest with low Boltzmann population ...
  • The quality or degree of being inept