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US
/ˌɪˈnɛpt/
]
[ UK /ɪnˈɛpt/ ]
[ UK /ɪnˈɛpt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
revealing lack of perceptiveness or judgment or finesse
an inept remark
it was tactless to bring up those disagreeable -
generally incompetent and ineffectual
inept handling of the account
feckless attempts to repair the plumbing -
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 inept In A Sentence
- ‘Pochles’ is used to describe a person who is physically inept and indecisive in his actions.
- They are now more likely to call a product obstreperous than blame themselves for their ineptitude.
- Most people couldn't afford, or felt too socially inept, to go and watch plays.
- I cannot understand how such an inept man can be elected head of the world's most powerful country.
- “Aussie slang: drongo – a stupid, inept, awkward or embarrassing person, a dimwit or slow-witted person” A Dumbass By Any Other Name | Motivational Humor from the Motivational Smart Ass!
- Then the regional financial crisis hit and suddenly the air was full of accusations of bureaucratic ineptitude, corruption and outright dereliction of duty.
- I am pretty sure 95\% of the commenters on this site have never even talked to a girl, which is why a bullfrog is their fantasy date - they never actually have to talk to him or let him see how socially inept they all are. Novinite.com (Sofia News Agency)
- Yet ineptitude at the back could not entirely explain away this truly awe-inspiring spectacle.
- As such, he was utterly made for the job, as his combination of physical clumsiness, verbal ineptitude and unwaveringly glaikit expression must have made even the most gauche and pallid code-cruncher feel like a cocksure sophisticate. Be My Enemy
- His tightly honed but grandiloquent rhetoric rang like gold on marble, even when it was covering gross political ineptitude.