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ineptitude

i nep ti toohd

  • n  unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training
  • n  having no qualities that would render it valuable or useful

  • At the end of a presidency of stupefying ineptitude, he has become the lamest of all possible ducks.
  • Whether or not it involves cronyism and cover-up, the affair of the White House travel office is a tale of ineptitude by officials who blindly followed bureaucratic rules.
  • Chvez represents a populist backlash against Venezuela's entrenched power lite, whose corruption and ineptitude had virtually bankrupted the oil-rich Caribbean nation.
News & Articles

  • Louis C.K. On What It Takes To Be A Real Father
    Today, we'll mostly hear funny anecdotes about the ineptitude of dads between all the compliments and high praise. Not from Louis C.K. though. He is tackling Father's Day with the kind of honesty you only expect from, well, Louis C.K.
    June 16, 2013 - CBS Chicago
  • Bush should have been impeachment target
    The June 9 featured letter calls for Obama's impeachment on the grounds of ineptitude in the handling of the Benghazi attack.
    June 14, 2013 - MyCentralJersey.com
  • The NCAA's Enforcement Division Is A Mess, And That's A Good Thing
    This week's Sports Illustrated (print edition) includes a lengthy rundown of the bureaucratic troubles plaguing the NCAA's enforcement division. SI 's take: That the ineptitude created by these troubles is preventing the NCAA from properly administering its rulebook. SI treats this as a problem, as something we all ought to lament. But isn't it good news? SI 's story picks up where Yahoo! left ...
    June 12, 2013 - Deadspin
Quotes

  • Patty Murray in San Jose Mercury News
    I guess when you look at the Building the Education Revolution program, the school halls rip-off, it's easy to understand that as deputy prime minister and education minister Julia Gillard was at the heart of the ineptitude, the waste, the... Tony Abbott http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Abbott&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHrRpI8E4LDSExW0iHUUV-KACBQKg Sydney Morning Herald http://www.google.com/url?q=http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-national/gillard-should-call-nauru-says-abbott-20100709-102p7.html&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNE8ofGLt1rFnyPBqgu3SFfKgU-Crw Jul 8, 2010 51345 68897 ineptitude I believe General Peake's heart is in the right place, but this job will take more than just promises," said Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., a member of the Senate panel. "He needs to work everyday to overcome the bureaucratic ineptitude,...
  • Bill Nelson in Forbes
    Unless he has a good explanation for not only what he knew and when he knew it but also for the ineptitude of the department ...... he is a goner,Nelson said of Gonzales. "I think there might be enough Republicans who are calling for his...

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