inept
28 02 2010Adjectives
1. (adj.) awkward, clumsy, cumbersome, ill-chosen, inapt, inept;
- not elegant or graceful in expression;
- “an awkward prose style”; “a clumsy apology”; “his cumbersome writing style”; “if the rumor is true, can anything be more inept than to repeat it now?”;
2. (adj.) feckless, inept;
- generally incompetent and ineffectual;
- “feckless attempts to repair the plumbing”; “inept handling of the account”;
3. (adj.) inept, tactless;
- revealing lack of perceptiveness or judgment or finesse;
- “an inept remark”; “it was tactless to bring up those disagreeable”;
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