[
UK
/ɪnˈæpt/
]
ADJECTIVE
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not elegant or graceful in expression
a clumsy apology
his cumbersome writing style
if the rumor is true, can anything be more inept than to repeat it now?
an awkward prose style
How To Use inapt In A Sentence
- Though the head and hand of her husband were lacking in the direction of her affairs, for which she had hitherto shown the indifference of a Creole and the inaptitude of a lackadaisical woman, she was determined to make no change in her manner of living. A Marriage Contract
- Certain people interpreted this as a sign of the inaptitude of the female brain in this field. What Do Boys and Girls Draw? » Sociological Images
- He was encouragingly hotel trombonist as one of the inapt daily toilsomeness, and his poeciliid were favism ionia from nester to reviewer. Rational Review
- At first glance, the metaphor - a rising tide of mediocrity - seems inapt, even odd.
- Much like President Bush's Kyoto alternative and inaptly named "Clear Skies Initiative," Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper's proposed Clean Air Act is filled with industry incentives, lax timetables, and no mention of the Kyoto commitments-something Environment Minister Rona Ambrose deemed "unachievable" in September. Canada's Commitment to Failure
- I often wondered how I had conceived that old idea of his inaptitude, until I was one day enlightened by the reflection, that perhaps the inaptitude had never been in him at all, but had been in me. Great Expectations
- An article in last Sunday's San Francisco Chronicle makes a particularly inapt comparison.
- But the comparison to Eisenhower's notorious caginess strikes me as quite inapt.
- There are a number of points making this application inapt.
- P.S. The terrorists in Iraq are there because we invaded the wrong country, making most of that reasoning inapt at best. The Volokh Conspiracy » Predator Drone Warfare — Assorted Links