inept
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As post-conviction lawyers who now represent Carruthers have said, his trial performance was “singularly inept, ineffective, and disastrous.”
From Slate • Apr. 20, 2026
Just because such comparisons are almost laughably inept doesn’t mean they don’t have real world stakes.
From Salon • Apr. 14, 2026
Mr. Gosling’s Grace, unlike Matt Damon’s character, is attractively humble, often confused, and at times inept.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 18, 2026
“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
It was then that the prosecution began its exam-ination of expert witnesses commencing with the long-suffering Professor Murray, its supposed expert in communism who had proved so inept in his subject during the preparatory examination.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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