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ineptocracies

ineptocracies is the plural of ineptocracy.

Meaning of ineptocracy

Noun

ineptocracy (countable and uncountable, plural ineptocracies)

  1. (countable, derogatory) A government characterized by incompetent leaders.
    • "People like to talk about a neoconservative cabal in the White House," he said, referring to the chief architects of the Iraq War, Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, and his deputy, Paul Wolfowitz. "But what you really have is an ineptocracy: these people can't do...2011, Christopher Merrill, The Tree of the Doves: Ceremony, Expeditions, War, Milkweed Editions, →ISBN, page 46
  2. (derogatory, uncountable) The phenomenon of governance or leadership by the incompetent.
    • The road users should at least get some benefit from this waste, another case of Somerset Highways showing ineptocracy.2011 November 17, Richard Fry, “Another case of inept action by highways”, in Wells Journal

Questions about ineptocracies

What is ineptocracies the plural of?
Ineptocracies is the plural of ineptocracy.

Words near ineptocracies in the dictionary

  1. ineptitude
  2. ineptitudes
  3. ineptly
  4. ineptness
  5. ineptnesses
  6. ineptocracies
  7. ineptocracy
  8. inequable
  9. inequably
  10. inequal
  11. inequalitarian

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