inept
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But she had to fight to wrest the position permanently from the grasp of an inept, problematic man.
From Salon • May 11, 2026
There’s a real argument here that an agency so inept in its recruitment will also be inept at training people and carrying out its mission.
From Slate • Jan. 13, 2026
Gunpowder started to change that, but early firearms were comically inept.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 14, 2025
“We spoke a lot about what kind of man Gustav was — the paradox of someone who can see people so clearly in his art yet be so clumsy and inept in his real life.”
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 5, 2025
We lunged about in the garage like two swashbucklers in an especially inept historical film for several moments, fork and cutlass clicking against each other madly.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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