How to Use ineptitude in a Sentence

ineptitude

noun

• The team's poor play is being blamed on the ineptitude of the coaching staff.
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• No more trying to cover up the ineptitude of our rulers with taxes.
  — Itxu Díaz, National Review, 25 Aug. 2020
• The shocking brutality of the murders soon gave way to the startling ineptitude of the crime and cover-up.
  — Vince Guerreri, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Dec. 2019
• When the final toll is tallied for Marsh’s ineptitude, the balance will be counted in lives.
  — Kyle Whitmire, al, 10 July 2020
• Not sure how Bears fans could’ve survived 2021 without the channel to take their minds off the team’s weekly ineptitude.
  — Paul Sullivan, chicagotribune.com, 31 Dec. 2021
• Tina doesn’t sound like an agent of malice, though, so much as social ineptitude.
  — Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2020
• But, for as poor as the offense and special teams played, the Trojans’ struggles once again came down to the defense’s ineptitude from start to finish.
  — J. Brady McCollough, Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2023
• The handling of the crisis that ensued became an embarrassing display of ineptitude on the part of the country’s leadership.
  — Amir A. Afkhami, Foreign Affairs, 2 Mar. 2020
• James was so great about really insisting on an ineptitude in these characters.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024