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Ineptitude

noun

Unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training. Synonyms: awkwardness, clumsiness, ineptness, maladroitness, slowness.

Having no qualities that would render it valuable or useful. Synonym: worthlessness.

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"Ineptitude" Quotes from Famous Books

... abstractions, stretching itself into comprehensive generalisations. But the excesses to which such a character is liable are, in him, prevented by a firm and watchful sense of propriety. His simplicity never degenerates into ineptitude or insipidity; his enthusiasm must be based on reason; he rarely suffers his love of the vast to betray him into toleration of the vague. The boy Schiller was extravagant; but the man admits no bombast ...

— The Life of Friedrich Schiller - Comprehending an Examination of His Works • Thomas Carlyle

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... have worked it out at her leisure, to the last link of the chain, the way their prettiness had set them trap after trap, all along—had foredoomed them to awful ineptitude. When you were as pretty as that you could, by the whole idiotic consensus, be nothing but pretty; and when you were nothing "but" pretty you could get into nothing but tight places, out of which you could then scramble by nothing but masses of fibs. And there was ...

— The Great English Short-Story Writers, Vol. 1 • Various

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Words linked to "Ineptitude" : worth, trashiness, unskillfulness, rustiness, sorriness, quality, fecklessness, vanity, emptiness, shucks, darn, shoddiness, tinker's damn, hoot, paltriness, valuelessness, idleness, red cent, shit, groundlessness, damn, tinker's dam