How to Use ineptitude in a Sentence

ineptitude

noun
  • The team's poor play is being blamed on the ineptitude of the coaching staff.
  • The list of such ineptitude is long.
    — Letters To The Editor, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Nov. 2025
  • This was an avalanche of ineptitude, failure of the worst kind.
    — Miami Herald, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Tina doesn’t sound like an agent of malice, though, so much as social ineptitude.
    — Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2020
  • On this night, with Valdez's ineptitude, no amount of runs would matter.
    — Chandler Rome, Houston Chronicle, 16 July 2019
  • Daniel was over in the corner kind of giggling through this and laughing at my ineptitude.
    — Nina Metz, chicagotribune.com, 22 May 2018
  • No more trying to cover up the ineptitude of our rulers with taxes.
    — Itxu Díaz, National Review, 25 Aug. 2020
  • Two years of ineptitude on offense took over the turf one more time against Maryland.
    — Chris Solari, Detroit Free Press, 1 Dec. 2019
  • The ineptitude of the opening five games seemingly has been laid to rest.
    — Tom Canavan, Star Tribune, 5 Dec. 2020
  • The offense set records of ineptitude on what seemed like a weekly basis.
    — Saad Yousuf, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2026
  • Their results to date reveal ineptitude in every phase of the game.
    — Craig Davis, Sun-Sentinel.com, 26 Apr. 2018
  • 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
  • The full extent of the police’s ineptitude has yet to be revealed.
    — Cameron MacDonald, Mercury News, 2 July 2025
  • Growing up, Mukarram showed a strange mix of savoir faire and ineptitude.
    — Alex Traub, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2023
  • So ugly that a big change must happen to reverse the current trend of ineptitude.
    — Anthony Stitt, Forbes.com, 9 June 2025
  • The Jets, in spite of a historic level of passing ineptitude, still had a chance to win.
    — Zack Rosenblatt, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2025
  • The second half didn’t see a point on the scoreboard, as both offenses showed ineptitude.
    — Scott Thompson, Fox News, 27 Dec. 2024
  • But the ineptitude of Alabama Democrats can’t be the news of the day.
    — John Archibald | [email protected], al, 8 Nov. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • With that ineptitude and Darnold not making big strides in his third season, Gase knows that’s on him.
    — Mark Heim | [email protected], al, 3 Jan. 2021
  • 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
  • The ineptitude of the offense wasn’t merely Prescott’s fault.
    — Nick Kehoe, Dallas News, 19 Jan. 2022
  • Then there is the ineptitude of the policy process in Congress.
    — Norm Ornstein, The Atlantic, 9 Oct. 2017
  • If any lions watch this movie, they’re bound to regard it as a comedy about the sheer ineptitude of one of their colleagues.
    — Kyle Smith, WSJ, 18 Aug. 2022
  • The man’s a symptom of franchise ineptitude.
    — Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 21 Feb. 2026
  • The city is doing harm to itself and to Balboa Park with this kind of ineptitude.
    — U T Readers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Mar. 2026
  • The good are getting richer off the ineptitude of the downtrodden.
    — Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 June 2026
  • But that should have been at Dicker’s feet, not the officials’ ineptitude.
    — Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Jan. 2026
  • When the final toll is tallied for Marsh’s ineptitude, the balance will be counted in lives.
    — Kyle Whitmire, al, 10 July 2020

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