unskillfulness

noun

Definition of unskillfulnessnext
as in incompetence

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  1. incompetence
  2. incompetency
  3. inability
Noun
  • The history of medicine is too littered with incompetence and immorality to believe that doctors have always been worthy of this status.
    Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2024
  • In a pre-dawn online news conference, an angry Sara Duterte accused Mr. Marcos of incompetence as a president and of being a liar, along with his wife and the House speaker in expletives-laden remarks.
    Jim Gomez, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Nov. 2024
Definition of incompetence
Noun
  • Brown signed an incompetency finding last Wednesday.
    Skye Seipp, Austin American-Statesman, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Any disagreements, incompetencies, and misunderstandings will cause visible damage to your home and your mental health during the process.
    Aksha Mittapalli, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Aug. 2024
Definition of incompetency
Noun
  • Entry Passes To Nikola Jokic One of the ongoing bugaboos for the Nuggets through the course of the career of their three-time MVP and Finals MVP Nikola Jokic has been his teammates’ inability at times to simply feed him the ball in the post.
    Joel Rush, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024
  • As litigation slowly advances, AI companies advance an argument that there will be no AI absent the ability to freely scrape content for training, resulting in our inability to leverage the promise of AI to solve cancer, mitigate global climate change, and eradicate global hunger.
    Craig Peters, Fortune, 2 Dec. 2024
Definition of inability
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