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Synonyms:
- inadequacy, heavy-handedness, clumsiness, inaptitude, mental retardation, unsuitableness, gracelessness, unsuitability, ineptness, slowness, incapability, incompetency, maladroitness, impotence, amateurishness, shakiness, subnormality, unskillfulness, worthlessness, powerlessness, impracticality, unwieldiness, deliberation, nuisance value, deliberateness, inability, unhurriedness, helplessness, ungracefulness, backwardness, incompetence, insufficiency, cumbersomeness, crudity, stiffness, retardation, incapacity, awkwardness
Examples:
- - From his earliest days, probably by his early reading of the romantic incidents of the first Spanish adventurers in the New World, he himself betrayed the genius of an adventurer, which prevailed in his character to the latest; and it often involved him in the practice of mean artifices and petty deceptions; which appear like folly in the wisdom of a sage; like ineptitude in the profound views of a politician; like cowardice in the magnanimity of a hero; and degrade by their littleness the grandeur of a character which was closed by a splendid death, worthy the life of the wisest and the greatest of mankind! - "Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 (of 3)", Isaac Disraeli
- - I was grieved at the ineptitude of the conversation. - "'Twixt Land & Sea", Joseph Conrad
- - But for her encouragement it might have been some years before he broke out of hobble- de- hoydom and the semi- vicious ineptitude that goes with it. - "The Rustle of Silk", Cosmo Hamilton
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