ineptocracy

English

Etymology

inept, from French inepte (“feckless”) + -cracy, from Ancient Greek κράτος (krátos, “strength, power”).

Noun

ineptocracy (countable and uncountable, plural ineptocracies)

(countable, derogatory) A government characterized by incompetent leaders.
- 2011, Christopher Merrill, The Tree of the Doves: Ceremony, Expeditions, War, Milkweed Editions (2011), →ISBN, page 46:
  "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 anything right."
(uncountable, derogatory) The phenomenon of governance or leadership by the incompetent.
- 2011, Richard Fry, "Another case of inept action by highways", Wells Journal, 17 November 2011:
  The road users should at least get some benefit from this waste, another case of Somerset Highways showing ineptocracy.

Quotations

For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:ineptocracy.

单词	ineptocracy
释义	ineptocracy English Etymology inept, from French inepte (“feckless”) + -cracy, from Ancient Greek κράτος (krátos, “strength, power”). Noun ineptocracy (countable and uncountable, plural ineptocracies) (countable, derogatory) A government characterized by incompetent leaders. 2011, Christopher Merrill, The Tree of the Doves: Ceremony, Expeditions, War, Milkweed Editions (2011), →ISBN, page 46: "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 anything right." (uncountable, derogatory) The phenomenon of governance or leadership by the incompetent. 2011, Richard Fry, "Another case of inept action by highways", Wells Journal, 17 November 2011: The road users should at least get some benefit from this waste, another case of Somerset Highways showing ineptocracy. Quotations For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:ineptocracy.
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