Preposition: of

• government: How much longer must the British public have to put up with the ineptitude of this Government.

• team: A shocking refereeing decision against Carlisle was only matched by the ineptitude of the team 's performance.

Converse of object

• show: If the average person had shown such ineptitude at work they would probably have faced summary dismissal.

• expose: Defeat in the 1962 Sino-Indian war exposed government ineptitude.

• blunder: Politicians almost invariably show blundering ineptitude when running the economy.

Adjective modifier

• sheer: Instead it was a method of erecting signs that was beyond careless or inconsistent - it was sheer ineptitude.

• political: Historians argue that it was the political ineptitude of his opponents which allowed Stalin to gain power.

• own: Any cushion we had in the First Division has been wiped out by our own ineptitude.

• social: Can this dubious character be the one to lift Alice out of the depths of her social ineptitude?

• such: One might wonder how students with such high grades could exhibit such mathematical ineptitude.

• financial: His abilities as a trainer of ( mostly ) his own horses were matched only by his financial ineptitude.