inaptitude

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for inaptitude
Noun
  • Suspicious activity could lead to the disqualification of candidates and a permanent suspension of the Athlete of the Week poll.
    Nathan Canilao, Mercury News, 11 Sep. 2025
  • In addition to Carter’s disqualification, Nolan Smith was flagged for taunting and roughing the quarterback.
    Zach Berman, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Many of the deaths were preventable and due to a combination of staff incompetence and cruel indifference.
    U T Editorial Board, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Sep. 2025
  • This is incompetence and there should be consequences for judges who make our society less safe.
    Amanda Castro Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Overuse of the members of Generation K — Jason Isringhausen, Bill Pulsipher and Paul Wilson — during their rookie seasons is often blamed for the trio’s inability to stay healthy and effective.
    Jerry Beach, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Roberts pointed to the Dodgers’ inability to support Yamamoto with more than one run against 42-year-old Justin Verlander – on a solo home run by Michael Conforto in the seventh inning – as part of the problem.
    Bill Plunkett, Oc Register, 13 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The National Geographic series dives into footage and narratives from officials leading the disaster response at the time, revealing incompetencies and false information from the media that cost locals their lives.
    Sam Gillette, People.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Portalatin’s petition seeks to remove Wilder and Saenz using a statute in the Texas Local Government Code that allows for citizens to seek public officials’ removal due to incompetency, official misconduct or drunkenness both on and off duty.
    Cody Copeland, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Ratified in 1967, it was designed to address gaps in succession and clarify what happens in cases of death, resignation, or incapacity.
    Amanda Castro, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Aug. 2025
  • This definition also includes instance in which the victim is incapable of giving consent because of temporary or permanent mental or physical incapacity (include due to the influence of drugs or alcohol) or because of age.
    Baltimore Sun staff, Baltimore Sun, 11 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • And the points that are being scored against the Vikings are too often a product of offensive ineptitude.
    Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Meanwhile, the usually reliable Molly Shannon delivers an inexplicably manic performance of exasperated adult ineptitude as the school principal trying, with a lot of faffing about but very little urgency, to track the kids down.
    Jessica Kiang, Variety, 13 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • That there is impotence and cancer and infidelity and vanity and loss.
    Lyz Lenz, Rolling Stone, 16 Aug. 2025
  • The rumors of my cinematic impotence are exaggerated and ageist.
    Rance Collins, IndieWire, 10 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • There was a clear vocabulary to define consent within OneTaste, but one witness after another spoke of pressure and powerlessness.
    Thessaly La Force, New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Workers internalize powerlessness, hyper vigilance, and anxiety.
    Rahkim Sabree, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
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“Inaptitude.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inaptitude. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.

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