inability

The inability to deal with a free-kick, the failure to pick up the goalscorer in the first instance and then multiple calamities in the concession of the second goal.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

One trigger for the disclosure was an inability to agree on a replacement for operations chief Jonathan Hitchon, who retired in 2023 and served as a kind of diplomat between Overdeck and Siegel.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

His film is a self-reflexive study of the inability to act as people expect — of masking and deception.

From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2026

Anger about Indonesia's inability to control the haze was stoked further by comments over the weekend from Jakarta's communications agency chief.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

In feudal times an ineptness with sword and spear headed a young man for the church: in the Hamilton family Joe’s inability properly to function at farm and forge headed him for a higher education.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

But the frustration is that Australia, at times, have not outplayed England - instead, they have been gifted opportunities to win by England's inabilities to do the basics, like catching the ball.

From BBC ● Feb. 2, 2025

In April 2020, the Department of Transportation received over 17,000 complaints about inabilities to get refunds for flights, a more than 17,000-percent increase from just 98 in the same month in 2019.

From New York Times ● Jul. 6, 2021

Hewitt’s own inabilities aside, the actress can at least play the part.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2018

But these inabilities do not exceed the corporeal: physical growth is not a metaphor for emotional growth.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 31, 2018

The artist has made a kind of subtle crime of his habitual expression, his emotional monotonies, and his intellectual inabilities.

From Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets by Marsden Hartley