Word: ineptness
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...varsity track team, crippled by a casualty list almost as long as its victory string, destroyed inept Princeton 101-53 here Saturday...
...Angeles' Democratic Mayor Samuel William Yorty, 55, easily won another four-year term in office last week, and he had found the competition so inept during the campaign that he couldn't resist chortling on election night: "If I had been my own opponent, I could have done a better job at finding fault with my record...
JOHN CLELAND was a luckless little hack who in 1748, destitute and desperate, scribbled Fanny Hill or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure for a flat fee of 20 guineas. He went on to become an inept philologist, ducked creditors much of his life, and died aged and unsung. If the poor fellow were only alive today, he could be a Big Writer, for critics on both sides of the Atlantic have acclaimed his ability to describe repetitive fornication with elegance and grace. He could wear hand-sewn Italian loafers, sell his still unwritten books to the paperbacks...
...running for re-election as mayor of Marseille. But Defferre triumphed handsomely and proudly hailed his victory as a "stinging defeat" for that "historic personage" in Paris. It was hardly that. The nationwide results were really little more than a tweak of the De Gaulle nose. However inept as vote getters his minions may be, De Gaulle himself remains undisputably the most popular man in France and virtually a certain bet to succeed himself as President...
...Magnificent Cuckold studies the squirmings of an inept philanderer (Ugo Tognazzi), bound to that storied Roman society in which marital infidelity appears to be as widespread as the common cold-and sooner or later everyone has to go to bed with it. Though Cuckold is too long, and made longer by dead-end forays into its hero's fantasy life, Director Antonio Pietrangeli imbues a thin fable with sprightly cynicism about the dire consequences of dalliance for players unable to master the sport...