How to Use ineptitude in a Sentence

ineptitude

noun

• The team's poor play is being blamed on the ineptitude of the coaching staff.
• His bravado and ineptitude as a killer fit in nicely with the two girls' dead-on and deadpan performances.
  — Michael Heaton, cleveland.com, 3 Jan. 2018
• The coach lacks integrity and the coach and owner exude ineptitude.
  — Doug Lesmerises, cleveland.com, 22 Mar. 2018
• Clemens’s brilliance as a writer was nearly matched by his financial ineptitude.
  — Richard Gunderman, Smithsonian, 13 Feb. 2018
• Compensating for the offensive ineptitude, save for Geno Smith’s 34-yard run.
  — Troy Renck, The Denver Post, 8 Sep. 2024
• That’s the toll of the past five seasons of ineptitude.
  — Ann Killion, SFChronicle.com, 22 Sep. 2019
• But the ineptitude of Alabama Democrats can’t be the news of the day.
  — John Archibald | [e-mail], al, 8 Nov. 2022
• The Brewers tacked on two more runs in the third thanks mostly to some rare St. Louis ineptitude.
  — Todd Rosiak, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 21 June 2018
• Yes, Trump lost to Joe Biden in 2020, after four years of chaos and ineptitude.
  — Jill Filipovic, CNN, 26 Apr. 2022
• The Jets were able to move the ball on the Ravens defense in the first half but were bailed out multiple times by New York’s ineptitude.
  — Baltimore Sun Staff, baltimoresun.com, 12 Dec. 2019
• The Orioles don’t pick first this year, thanks to the Detroit Tigers’ ineptitude.
  — Jon Meoli, baltimoresun.com, 31 Oct. 2019
• Now the Bears may have the worst offense in decades, if not in their history, which is quite a feat of ineptitude.
  — Brad Biggs, chicagotribune.com, 29 Sep. 2021
• But a short stretch of glaring ineptitude does not mean that Riley won’t get the job done for USC.
  — J. Brady McCollough, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2023
• The ineptitude of the opening five games seemingly has been laid to rest.
  — Tom Canavan, Star Tribune, 5 Dec. 2020
• Hitters reached base less than 30% of the time, a level of ineptitude that harkened back to the 19th century.
  — Jared Diamond, WSJ, 30 Apr. 2018
• The ineptitude of the offense wasn’t merely Prescott’s fault.
  — Nick Kehoe, Dallas News, 19 Jan. 2022
• Two years of ineptitude on offense took over the turf one more time against Maryland.
  — Chris Solari, Detroit Free Press, 1 Dec. 2019
• On this night, with Valdez's ineptitude, no amount of runs would matter.
  — Chandler Rome, Houston Chronicle, 16 July 2019
• With that ineptitude and Darnold not making big strides in his third season, Gase knows that’s on him.
  — Mark Heim | [e-mail], al, 3 Jan. 2021
• Daniel was over in the corner kind of giggling through this and laughing at my ineptitude.
  — Nina Metz, chicagotribune.com, 22 May 2018
• For a program that had been middle of the pack in the MAC under Bowden, that's a stunning turn of ineptitude.
  — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 18 Nov. 2019
• The scant belief and hope of a side completely bereft of confidence had been washed away by the ineptitude of one of their own.
  — SI.com, 1 May 2018
• But most troubling was the ineptitude of Mitchell Trubisky and the offense, who couldn’t find a rhythm until late in the fourth quarter.
  — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 5 Sep. 2019
• After carrying the team to many of those late-game comebacks in the first half of the season, the bullpen was the culprit behind the late-game ineptitude down the stretch.
  — Joe Freeman, oregonlive, 3 June 2021
• Hamas was growing stronger while the PA in the West Bank withered away under the weight of its own ineptitude and corruption.
  — Natan Sachs, Foreign Affairs, 19 Jan. 2024
• But long before they were known for their ineptitude, the Browns were a very, very successful team.
  — The Si Staff, SI.com, 28 Aug. 2019
• Yet time and again in this pandemic the CDC has been a source of confusion or ineptitude.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 30 July 2021
• In fact, my night-one ineptitude forced me into what might have been the world’s fastest retirement.
  — Mitchell S. Jackson, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2023
• Growing up, Mukarram showed a strange mix of savoir faire and ineptitude.
  — Alex Traub, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2023
• James was so great about really insisting on an ineptitude in these characters.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019

Last Updated: 10 Dec 2024