cowardly and in competent (/incapable); weak and ineffective ❍ 宋与金的历史，对崇祯说来，殷鉴不远，而他绝不愿在臣民心目和后代史书中被看成是～的君主。(姚雪垠《李自成》Ⅱ—775) In the Song Dynasty the appeasement of the Nuchen Tartars served as a warning,and the emperor had no desire to be viewed in history as a weak and ineffective ruler.
懦弱无能nuò ruò wú nénɡ
软弱没有本事。be weak and useless, weak and ineffective, cowardly and incapable