inaptitude

I visit Marconi less often now, but more from inaptitude than fear.

In a television interview Friday, Erdogan accused leaders of Iraq’s autonomous region of “serious political inaptitude” for going ahead with plans to hold the vote on Sept. 25.

All the characters in the book go mad, and the author's utter inaptitude for literature turns what might have been passable third-rate melodrama into a farce.

We cannot add one moment to its eternity, nor by our inaptitude diminish the proper glory of our art.

So I floundered and fumbled and failed, through long years for the mere want of the small dose of cynical courage required for recognising frankly my congenital inaptitude.