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inefficiency

i ni fi shuhn see

  • n  unskillfulness resulting from a lack of efficiency

  • For all its glitz, Bombay remains a temple to inefficiency.
  • Baldwin's serious charge: the Bureau of Ordnance is clogged by inertia and inefficiency, specifically in the development of naval mines and torpedoes; the Navy itself countenances .
  • Government inefficiency, corruption and the intransigence of local populations has left the city knee-deep in trash.
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  • What Will Humans Look Like in 100,000 Years?
    Think you're done evolving? You might want to think again. While homo sapiens has come a long way since the Stone Age, and modern medicine is ever-rapidly developing, new biological and psychological ailments enter our vocabularies all the time — many of them incurable. Not to mention, robots have taken over many formerly human occupations because of our inefficiency. Who's to say there's no ...
    June 11, 2013 - Mashable
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  • Michael Gove in Yorkshire Post
    Shadow children's secretary Michael Gove said: "The Sutherland report is an epic catalogue of incompetence, inefficiency and blinkered inactivity in the delivery of a vital public service. It paints an unremittingly depressing picture of the...

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