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Silly ladies' man, sort displaying ineptitude (13)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

maladroitness

'ineptitude' is the definition.
(I know that ineptitude can be written as maladroitness)

'silly ladies' man sort' is the wordplay.
'silly' indicates anagramming the letters.
'ladies'+'man'+'sort'='ladiesmansort'
'ladiesmansort' anagrammed gives 'MALADROITNESS'.

'displaying' is the link.

(Other definitions for maladroitness that I've seen before include "Clumsy behaviour" , "insensitivity" , "Clumsiness" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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