Synonym: awkward, clumsy, cumbersome, feckless, ill-chosen, inapt, tactless. Similar words: nephew, adept, keep to, septic, except, accept, precept, concept. Meaning: [ɪ'nept] adj. 1. not elegant or graceful in expression 2. generally incompetent and ineffectual 3. revealing lack of perceptiveness or judgment or finesse.
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31 Audrey had arrived late, and her twittering, terrified, inept chatter was the most touching touch of all.
32 Nominal independence in 1960 brought a succession of inept, mostly military governments.
33 Who could say how much law and order had been eroded by soup stains, a careless buttoning, an inept shave.
34 Where there were sentimental witnesses the old, the ugly and the inept always came out best.
35 To most of his contemporaries Blake was a nutter or simply inept.
36 They're inept at tennis.
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37 Negotiations, in the hands of the inept or inexperienced, can go horribly wrong.
38 At first I thought it had maybe been a cat on the roof, then possibly some inept burglar.
39 When it comes to girls, Isaac is socially inept and awkward.
40 Filled with shame, she rarely tells a friend how inept, depressed, or restless she feels.
41 Inept handling of the match by the referee ensured that the game would not pass without incident.
42 He's quite inept at tennis.
43 You are completely inept at writing.
44 He is inept at ball games.
45 There are some people so inept at keeping records.
46 The choice of Lady Chatterley as a test-case was inept, but it suited the anti-intellectual temper of the legal establishment and it would mean the defeat of an impeccably liberal cause.
47 Dickinson's broken meter, unusual rhythmic patterns, and assonance struck even respected critics of the time as sloppy and inept.
48 He is inept at [ in ] ball games .
49 Her employer gave her books on politics and sociology to read[sentencedict.com], while his brother-in-law crept into her bed at night and gave her inept kisses.
50 In the service of the empress, this inept chauffeur faced no legal sanction for the mishap.
51 He is totally inept.
52 He's inept at tennis.
53 At the battle of Crecy in 1346, the inept Philip annihilated his own army.
54 Investigators blamed lack of funding and inept management, among other factors.
55 Hoover was inept at politics as he was superb administration.
56 They ended the season a confused, inept and broken team.
57 Michael Martin, the incumbent until June 21st, was inept, but it was his refusal to tackle—or even to air publicly—the laxness of the allowances system that did for him.
58 In the SARS epidemic in 2003, the technocrats were initially inept too, putting face-saving ahead of epidemiology.
59 Why do you give me this tainted Apocrypha , this thousandth copy, this inept falsification?
60 Accordingly, his peers judged him an inept instructor and ill-suited to a scholarly career.
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