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Synonyms for inefficiency


Grammar : Noun
Spell : in-i-fish-uh n-see
Phonetic Transcription : ˌɪn ɪˈfɪʃ ən si



Définition of inefficiency

  • noun incompetence
Example sentences :
  • The thorn of Anna's inefficiency had always rankled in her flesh.
  • Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart
  • To-day, however, no such charge of inefficiency can be made.
  • Extract from : « Rural Life and the Rural School » by Joseph Kennedy
  • On the other hand, they may be the result of cowardice or inefficiency.
  • Extract from : « War from the Inside » by Frederick L. (Frederick Lyman) Hitchcock
  • The inefficiency of Congress and its want of moral influence were self-confessed.
  • Extract from : « Union and Democracy » by Allen Johnson
  • I changed my views on the inefficiency of our Home Defenders.
  • Extract from : « Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, February 23, 1916 » by Various
  • He felt the inefficiency of the sentence that he was about to pronounce, but he had no alternative.
  • Extract from : « The History of Tasmania , Volume II (of 2) » by John West
  • Time and time again Susan replaced a man who had been discharged for inefficiency.
  • Extract from : « Susan B. Anthony » by Alma Lutz
  • There are many degrees of efficiency and, it must be acknowledged, of inefficiency.
  • Extract from : « Life and Work in Benares and Kumaon, 1839-1877 » by James Kennedy
  • Hamilton writhed internally at the thought of Francis Augustus and his inefficiency.
  • Extract from : « Bones » by Edgar Wallace
  • Inefficiency and degradation were the marks of the non-slaveholding whites.
  • Extract from : « The Negro and the Nation » by George S. Merriam

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