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Sentence Examples He was described in court by his own barrister as a social misfit, inept in the company of adults. He was completely useless, of course, and consistently held the team back with his inept displays. Just imagine what inept superpowers Ben and Jennifer's new baby girl must have. The last thing she needed right now was some inept matchmaking attempt or broad hint to Paul from her mother or sister. If one failed re-education, they were dubbed as mentally inept, and put into a school for special education students. The CIA was not impressed, dismissing the would-be politician as an inept bumbler. It is all in the facts and figures, but, of course, she images somebody who is useless, inept, bungling, and ineffectual. The songs are often second-rate and the performances are dire, like his shockingly inept vocal on the title track. Two automobiles arrived, ancient models that by modern standards appeared quite inept. They now expect me to pay the arrears I owe them through their inept management of resources. It's sort of like watching Leo X's inept and ham-fisted dealings with Martin Luther. It's during these inept stabs at drama that the director displays how far in over his head he is. Finishing with an acoustic track would seem an inept way of completing a quintessentially heavy rock album but it works. The inept mayor's re-election would depend entirely on the hebetude of the townspeople, he thought. The Council would have to be extraordinarily inept if it were not to take heed of this overwhelming reaction to the move. They weren't cool or extremely popular, nor were they unpopular, and didn't go out of their way to befriend the socially inept outcast types. Wilhemina is a rising surgeon who begrudgingly meets and greets inept blind dates to appease her overbearing mother. Before long, her hilariously inept culinary techniques force her to plead for help from neighbours. It follows the romance between a movie star and the chorus girl recruited to replace his inept leading lady. Hence the bewildering array of prime-time programmes showing inept plumbers caught on CCTV or grown men making curtain swags out of potato sacks. Show More Sentences This was an appalling climbdown which exposed the inept manner with which the implementation has been undertaken. Lopez is completely inept when it comes to playing out the hysterics that this mellow-dramatic insipid thriller so often demands of her. His downfall came only when he made a clumsy and inept attempt to forge her will, to claim her legacy for himself. The script is a real clunker, featuring dialogue so inept one is tempted to suspect the screenwriter died early in the process. The company's investment decisions were so colossally inept as to suggest an ulterior motive. She's said to have public breakdowns, violent spasms, and the mumbling and grumbling of those less sane and incapably inept. This is the second year we have been disenfranchised by this inept system and incompetence behind its planning. He visits his old office, tries to help out, but feels like he left the work in inept hands. There can be no way back into next Scotland squad after this inept display. I cannot understand how such an inept man can be elected head of the world's most powerful country. He has clearly lost the plot and is proving to be both inept and devoid of morality himself. Most people couldn't afford, or felt too socially inept, to go and watch plays. Things are so much easier now I can converse, albeit in a choppy inept way, in Japanese. Now inept council staff and councillors are to waste public money on proposals which do not address the situation. He is socially inept, he has no personal life, yet he tries to help damaged minds. He did not let the army tackle the situation, leaving it to the inept and communal police force. Consecutive governments have insisted on a completely inept policy of open immigration. He said the inept attitude of the government has created a chaotic situation in the state. And if the inept service doesn't take your breath away, the prices certainly will. In part, this vote has emerged because of the inept handling of the asylum issue by the Government. Show More Sentences Yes, it is amazing that someone can be inept at speaking pig Latin, but I am. When an informationally inept population must compete with one that is informationally adept, the deficient state or region always loses. I spent an entire day, nearly 12 hours, because of inept vandals, who as it turns out had a field day in this garage. Companies' accounts were misleading, their auditors conniving, their lawyers conspiring, their bankers inept. It means that our police forces are hopelessly inept when it comes to applying detective work to modern communications. From the start, the campaign to track down the notorious dacoit appears to have been brutal and inept. Socially inept, the young entymologist is delighted when he meets Clara, the only girl on campus as interested in gall wasps as he is. He's intelligent, but gawky and socially inept, unable to communicate with anyone other than his family. He didn't even leave behind a puff of smoke, as more inept magicians were wont to do. The reaction so far has been a sweeping condemnation of the team's hitters, who are described as inept and puny and feeble. It isn't embarrassingly inept like his last film, but nor is it more distinguished than an average TV movie. If you took all my mistakes and cock-ups in my life and laid them out in a line, you would say this guy is the most stupid and inept person ever. Those inept, self-important idiots ran that place into the ground, creating unnecessary crises through decades of obstinate mismanagement. And most importantly, both share utter contempt for the politicians who, according to them, are rabble-rousers, inept and corrupt. The fault lies clearly, yet again, with inefficient and inept council officers and management. Only the most inept of dramatists could deliver a romance so completely lacking in depth and subtlety. The company had the most wonderful technology coupled with lethally inept management. But it's so inept on every level that even scenes that have an inherent, almost foolproof interest fail to come to life. There is frequently poor closure of periods and an inept employment of rhythm in the closure of stanzas and of poems. Even where love is blind, it was obvious that Julian had been inept at studies, and his prospects were fair at best. Show More Sentences The bizarre incident nevertheless solidified the widespread public view that the Opposition Leader was an inept lummox and unreconstructed thug. They were technically inept in the skills of composition, though some were fine singers and lutenists. Their years of management were pretty inept and brought about a tenfold increase in water prices. If Davis is booted out, it will more or less become accepted fact that he was an inept governor. The biggest factor that turned the game India's way in Barbados was the inept batting by West Indies. He was doing just dandy so I left him to it and went to the silo's where the world's most inept B-double driver was waiting to unload some feed. Maybe it's because my parents were so good at it, but I have lately found myself around a number of really inept mommies and daddies. She'd been, in a sort of robust but slightly inept way, telling him what to do and what to say. However inept these postings were, they were unpaid volunteers expressing their unscripted enthusiasm. With the willing but wholly inept assistance of Mark the Squaddie, with infinite effort, the little bleeders were successfully returned to Stalag Sheep. His descriptions are often quite pedestrian and sometimes strangely inept. The management of transport policy over several decades has been spectacularly inept, aside from the understandable underestimation of population numbers. As insipid and inept as The Rescuers is, the film inexplicably turned out to be a box office bonanza for Disney, scoring boffo business both domestically and in Europe. Indeed, his inept attempts to frighten off Stewie only make the situation worse. I keep trying, maybe one day I'll get the secret, until then you'll just have to put up with this poorly constructed, grammatically inept, syntax challenged journal. The course of the rivulet of wine, from which a Bacchante is scooping a jugful, is confused, perhaps through the deterioration of the paint or through inept restoration. The ruling authoritarianism there breeds inept and corrupt politicians. But he succeeds notably in sustaining enthusiasm across 751 pages, taking a wise and soulful man who was inept at courting popular opinion and lionizing him. The word inept, according to Roget's Thesaurus, means clumsy, artless, awkward, bungling, inadept, inefficient, unskillful, ham-handed and incapable. Behind the bar is Steve, a clumsy, almost heroically inept young oik. Show More Sentences And I was a speccy, socially inept nerd with dreams of Miss Right. Nevertheless, we chatted a bit about how inept we both were at making turkey and the associative guilt we felt at being relegated to mashing potatoes. No more seedy bars, inept passes or atrocious chat-up lines. And the inflationists will surely be quick to point blame at inept politicians, shortfalls in our education system, and powerful global forces outside of our control. He made her feel so silly, so inadequate, so inept at being his secretary. This intellectually deficient, petulent man-child was exactly what he appeared to be and his inept, arrogant administration is a perfect reflection of him. But he, as only history knows, was an inept military commander, a lying, back-stabbing political opportunist, and, for good measure, mostly illiterate. Another strand involves three inept gangsters and a dog, who bungle every job they attempt, and whose dog you just know is going to become a crucial part of the plot. How could members of my profession be so inept at talking to suffering people? When it comes to inept financial planning, Montreal 1976 was the all-time record-breaker. Here we have an inept comedian bear, a diva pig, a masochistic daredevil, a psychotic foreign culinary expert, and a raucously eccentric house band. If the robbers hadn't been so inept they might have got away with it. For a tearjerker with modest ambitions, this film is excruciatingly inept. This film is so cheap, ridiculous and inept, it beggars description. In more experienced hands, this could have been a real theatrical adventure but for much of the time, I felt like a tourist being herded around by an inept tour guide. The moment seems to be a familiar breed of Internet gaffe when a eager but inept social media staffer makes a blunder. It defies plausibility to suggest that president after president after president is blundering or inept. They were severely lambasted for being so inept and so incompetent. His political opponents have portrayed him as an inept stumblebum. Maurice Baring's 1911 The Rehearsal fictionalises Shakespeare's company's inept rehearsals for Macbeth's premiere. Show More Sentences If radical reform was not undertaken, warned Mohamed Sahnoun, then the UN would continue to respond to such crisis with inept improvisation. Surrey's conduct of the ensuing battle, characterized by his arrogant and unimaginative adherence to chivalric convention, was inept. Coakley, as inept a communicator as Gillibrand, just proved this. Councillor Bennett, as well as handing valuable ammunition to the city's young profaners, proves himself verbally inept. Ian Fletcher looks on with bemusement as his inept colleagues are promoted. One educational video shows a slurring squaddie making an inept attempt to chat up a woman, while another is shown starting a pub brawl. In a sense, McGuinty was unopposed, since the Conservatives under Tim Hudak managed to sound as inept and schoolmarmish as the Liberals. This is the man whose incompetence led to the inept response to the floods and who bodged the badger cull. Yet for so public a figure, Jackson was socially awkward, inept at small talk and terrified when the distant audience became an adoring mob. Their defense is lackadaisical, their forwards frequently inept. It's a gritty subtitled crime drama that brings together garrulous, priapic Dane Martin and exacting, socially inept Swede Saga. As ever, Head Of News David Westhead is utterly appalled by all the cretinous jibberish spouted by his inept colleagues. William Hung enjoyed a moment of fame because his inept song-and-dance routine was entertainingly mockable. Since Company employees proved inept farmers, tracts of land were granted to married Dutch citizens who undertook to spend at least twenty years in South Africa. Glenn Ford tries manfully to help turn uncouth, unruly, inept, unkempt and dishevelled high school delinquents into couth, ruly, ept, kempt and shevelled students. But they still run rings around the office dim-bulb, a genetic throwback so inept at the fundamentals of modern existence that remaining on two feet proves beyond him. Everyone knows that HP ran afoul of the authorities a few months back by using inept gumshoes to identify the board member who leaked company news to reporters. I don't wholly blame the chaps for what was a fairly inept performance because the spoiling tactics of the Eyeties were frustrating, if not illegal. Apprentice no-hopers I VERY much enjoy watching The Apprentice each year, if only to confirm to myself that I am not as inept as sometimes I feel. Examples from Classical Literature It would have been wholly inept and spiritless to transfer this from Gunnar to Attila. His presidency has been Rooseveltian, but the Republicans would have you believe the guy is inept. They are so pro-European it is frightening, dare we ever let these politically inept betrayers gain power again? In her alter-ego of Supergran, she leapt tall buildings in one leap and battled the local inept crimelord the Scunner Campbell. It was supposed that the hemlock was mistakenly taken for parsley when originally supplied by an inept seedsman. He is untrained, inept, but he will fill the place and draw the pay. The visitors made a game of being awkward and inept, together. The tradition is inept as it stands, but it has a basis of truth. The visitor turns out to be an incredibly inept, hopelessly stupid nerd who outstays his welcome. That conscience may be imperfect, inept, unintelligent, brummagem. We admire these lazy, suicidally inept animals yet we disrespect smart beings like the rat and the crow, which, respectively, display selflessness and a sense of humour. Find more words! 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