inept
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Or if they’d been hoping to see more competent football from their football team, they instead found themselves watching impressively inept football, with neither team scoring during the first half.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026
A source said that Healey still believed he could somehow balance the books, that big adjustments could be made - an assumption they described as "inept".
From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2026
As post-conviction lawyers who now represent Carruthers have said, his trial performance was “singularly inept, ineffective, and disastrous.”
From Slate ● Apr. 20, 2026
The Scotsman had built a stellar reputation at sea, offset by an inept sense of naval and parliamentary politics at home.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
“I think she was surprised. And perhaps her feelings were hurt. She certainly didn’t express herself very well. Shocking, really, that a romance novelist could be so inept at the language of the heart.”
From "Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures" by Kate DiCamillo
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