inability

It’s annoying that she is blaming her inability to complete tasks on you, but it sounds like your co-workers and boss know you’re a communicative manager.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 29, 2026

McDaniel teased reporters when asked about Hampton’s expected usage, apologizing to fantasy owners for his inability to declare the running back the bell cow because of their other options he has to work with.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026

Mr. Statham, a not infrequently delightful actor whose main weakness is an inability to say no to mediocre projects, undertakes the usual heroic killing spree in “Mutiny,” a brief, reasonably compelling but shamelessly workmanlike feature.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026

Abu Ridi voiced frustration at the Israeli military's inability to remove a handful of settlers from the site and called for more action to resolve the situation.

From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026

Conant, unhappy with his scientists’ inability to settle on a single separation process, penciled out a proposal to spend $870 million for four individual pilot plants.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

But the frustration is that Australia, at times, have not outplayed England - instead, they have been gifted opportunities to win by England's inabilities to do the basics, like catching the ball.

From BBC ● Feb. 2, 2025

But the rollout of aid has been slow, partly reflecting the Haitian government’s own inabilities to oversee and coordinate it, an echo of the problems following the 2010 quake.

From New York Times ● Aug. 16, 2021

Hewitt’s own inabilities aside, the actress can at least play the part.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2018

But these inabilities do not exceed the corporeal: physical growth is not a metaphor for emotional growth.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 31, 2018

The inabilities of the histrions themselves, is another matter.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 353, March 1845 by Various