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Ineptitude See also Awkwardness. Brown, Charlie meek hero unable to kick a football, fly a kite, or win a baseball game. [Comics: “Peanuts” in Horn, 543] incompetent commander of the minesweeper Caine. [Am. Lit. and Cinema: Wouk The Caine Mutiny in Benét, 157] officious, inept constable. [Br. Lit.: Much Ado About Nothing] deputy who can’t be trusted with loaded gun. [TV: “The Andy Griffith Show” in Terrace, I, 55–56] bungling do-gooder. [TV: Terrace, I, 305–306] whose every action reeks of incompetence. [TV: “Gilligan’s Island” in Terrace, I, 312–313] called a “butcher” for his needless and bungled operations. [Am. Lit.: King’s Row; Magill I, 478] soft-hearted, unkempt Viking whose raids yield minuscule plunder. [Comics: Horn, 299] the ultimate in inept officers. [Comics: “Beetle Bailey” in Horn, 105–106] bungler trying to find niche; always fails. [TV: “The Huckleberry Hound Show” in Terrace, I, 367–377] naive official in charge of prisoner-of-war camp. [TV: “Hogan’s Heroes” in Terrace, I, 357–358] chinless aide, bungles the simplest assignments. [Comics: Hagar the Horrible in Horn, 299]
actions are well-meant, but his continual interference ruins lovers’ plans. [Br. Drama: The Busybody in Barnhart, 185] obliged to label painted objects for identification. [Span. Lit.: Don Quixote] book stating, “in a Hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to the level of his incompetence.” [Am. Lit.: The Peter Principle, Payton, 522] who can’t do anything right. [Comics: “The Sad Sack” in Horn, 595–596] can’t live up to his name. [Am. Lit.: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz; Am. Cinema: Halliwell, 780] bumbling assistant to Colonel Klink at Stalag 13. [TV: “Hogan’s Heroes” in Terrace, I, 357–358] country doctor attends Tristram Shandy’s birth and crushes the infant’s nose with his forceps. [Br. Lit.: Tristram Shandy in Magill I, 1027] inexperience makes their trip on the Thames become a series of misfortunes. [Br. Lit.: Jerome Three Men in a Boat in Magill II, 1018] twin antitheses of “New York’s Finest.” [TV: “Car 54, Where Are You?” in Terrace, I, 138–139] world’s most incompetent sheriff. [Comics: Horn, 673] invents clever objects that never work. [Br. Lit.: Lewis Carroll Through the Looking-Glass] |
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Yet it would be difficult to say which is the worst of the two--Russian ineptitude or the German method of growing rich through honest toil. This stupid repetition was too incongruous in its ineptitude with the serious, brooding and enigmatic glance he turned upon his visitor. My ineptitude made me the butt of the looting, cursing, swash-buckling lot who formed the very irregular squadron which we joined; and it would have gone hard with me but for Raffles, who was soon the darling devil of them all, but never more loyally my friend. |
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