inept English

Meaning inept meaning

What does inept mean?

Definitions in simple English

inept Adjective

— If someone is inept at something, they can't do it well. She is a bad worker. She's inept at her job.

inept

— adjective (= feckless) generally incompetent and ineffectual feckless attempts to repair the plumbing inept handling of the account

— adjective (= awkward, clumsy, cumbersome) 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?

— adjective (= tactless) revealing lack of perceptiveness or judgment or finesse an inept remark it was tactless to bring up those disagreeable

Synonyms inept synonyms

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inept English » English

clumsy

awkward

unfit

inappropriate

improper

unsuitable

tactless

silly

inapt

helpless

foolish

feckless

absurd

unskillful

unskilled

unseemly

undue

unbefitting

unbecoming

inexpert

indecorous

indecent

incongruous

incompetent

ill-chosen

cumbersome

bungling

witless

wet

unwise

untalented

unsuited

unseeded

unqualified

unneighbourly

unneighborly

unmentionable

unhappy

ungraceful

ungentlemanly

ungainly

unfitting

uneligible

undesirable

uncomely

uncalled-for

uncalled for

unapt

unaccepted

unacceptable

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Movie subtitles

I really don't care. one of those fashionable architects is just as inept as another.

Basile, you're so inept.

You're probably the most inept. house breaker in all of New England.

Because you're a bumbling, inept fool.

I'm not surprised. I've never seen a more inept performance!

I think H.Q. Would be very interested to learn that this unit is commanded. by an inept incompetent who runs down his chief nurse every chance he gets!

I seem to be inept at everything except my work.

They're not disobedient, just inept.

A very inept analogy, if I may say so.

You stupid, lame-brained, inept morons!

Somebody betrayed? No! Inept and disloyal officials, counties in favour of the New Constitution.

Inept, but innocent.

Inept?

I mean, inept!

Being so inept can be a lifesaver.

And he's vain, mischievous, lazy, inept and deceitful.

Well, fortunately, well, for me, that is, the assassin was most inept.

I'm awkward, inept.

What inept police those Bourbons had.

I dreamed of going away with some inept employee of mine.

Disgusting, helpless, inept. bloodsucking parasite!

The inept amateurs.

Because you run one of the more inept hospitals in all of southern California.

You should realize by now that I wouldn't be that inept.

You are utterly inept as a historian!

I've never seen a more inept performance!

You are an old stupid asshole completely inept.

If I'm so inept, how come we're having dinner?

Inept politicians?

Before, I thought you were obstructive or inept. But now I think you're much more sinister.

I have always thought that violence was the last refuge of the incompetent, and empty threats the final refuge of the terminally inept.

I was so inept it was incredible.

We're not invited, thanks to Frasier's inept advice.

Not completely inept.

News and current affairs

Only a constitution, they argue, can restore much needed legitimacy to a political system that is widely perceived as deeply corrupt and inept.

Those revolutions, whatever their ultimate outcome, have exposed the philosophy and behavior of Bin Laden and his followers as not only illegitimate and inhumane, but actually inept at achieving better conditions for ordinary Muslims.

His administration has been inept, corrupt, and without accomplishment.

Unfortunately, however, the European Parliament is fairly inept at selling itself to public opinion.

Governments were inept.

The ECB's decision last week to withhold credit to the country's banking system, and thereby to shutter the banks, was both inept and catastrophic.

This division of labor in all areas of life means that men and women remain surprisingly inept at tasks assigned to the other sex.

The Soviet system was particularly inept at handling information.

Politicians are inept at handling such problems, so environmental risks continue to grow without adequate changes in public policy.

Tudor's party confronts inept, feuding, and confused parties in the governing coalition, and the opportunistic, and scarcely reformed postcommunists led by Iliescu.

Hamas's emergence as a formidable military force also reflects the Egyptians' inept performance in preventing the smuggling of weapons into Gaza.

The parties on the right largely embrace free-market thinking, while Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood and its kindred parties in Libya and Tunisia are deeply sceptical of the state, which they view as bloated, inept, and ultimately corrupt.

Today, many traders see formerly inept state giants as financial geniuses, capable of taming complex financial formulas and exploiting their superior size and trading information to squeeze the life out of currency and interest rate markets.

Indeed, US criticism of Al Jazeera sounds more like special pleading because of America's inept bumbling in Iraq than a genuine desire for free, open, and critical Arab media.

Inexperienced and diplomatically inept, Kan's administration buckled, releasing the trawler captain early.

On the contrary, his belligerent rhetoric and inept governance scared off investors, inciting economic decline and boosting unemployment and poverty.

Hatoyama's inept handling of key national security issues played a key role in his undoing.

The Soviet system was particularly inept at handling information. The deep secrecy of its political system meant that the flow of information was slow and cumbersome.

Inept government and economic decline in the 1980's and 1990's obliged Nigeria's leaders to focus on problems closer to home, like the civil wars in Liberia and Sierra Leone.

Ogarkov's ineptness (and inept mendacity), together with the mounting failure since 1979 of the Soviet Union's war in Afghanistan, exposed the system's advanced decrepitude.

Those inept comments fatally undercut the government's summoning of the Chinese ambassador to demand a return to the status quo ante.