ineptocracy

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A government characterized by incompetent leaders. countable,derogatory
    — "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."
  2. The phenomenon of governance or leadership by the incompetent. derogatory,uncountable
    — The road users should at least get some benefit from this waste, another case of Somerset Highways showing ineptocracy.

词形变化

ineptocracies plural

词源

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