inept
Example Sentences
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A party insider described talk of a leadership challenge before May to me as "politically inept".
From BBC
The smartest guy in the room could also be strangely inept at reading the room.
The authors debunk commonly held myths that cast senior citizens as inept, scam-prone users of the internet.
Gunpowder started to change that, but early firearms were comically inept.
“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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
