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UK
/ɪnˈɛptli/
]
[ US /ˌɪˈnɛptɫi/ ]
[ US /ˌɪˈnɛptɫi/ ]
ADVERB
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in an infelicitous manner
this function is ineptly left to a small voice -
with ineptitude; in an incompetent manner
he performed his functions ineptly
How To Use ineptly In A Sentence
- Jack Straw, a man so unpleasant that even his son shuns his policies (although, the fact that he was dobbed in for cannabis possession by his own father may have something to do with it), was defending—probably ineptly and with a lie in every sentence—the government's Iraq policy, when Walter Wolfgang "heckled" him (if Jack thinks that's heckling, he should see a crap stand-up gig in Glasgow). Archive 2005-09-01
- We have no legal right to prevent our government from trying to brainwash us, however ineptly.
- this function is ineptly left to a small voice
- Let's refresh your memory and remind you why you are able to speak freely, albeit ineptly.
- They recall that they reacted very poorly then —about as ineptly as the U.S. government reacted to Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
- To move ineptly or haltingly; stumble.
- The shoot features a thonged female model flanked by two male models ineptly posing as surfers. Joseph Wambaugh's latest: Loopy theatrics and lyrical language
- The ineptly conceived murder of the boys is resoundingly anticlimactic.
- Is winding up in the back of a taxi at four o'clock in the morning, fumbling ineptly with unfamiliar zippers a good sign?
- In the television show, Homer responds by ineptly professing his love for Marge, who later goes to him at the nuclear power plant where he works.