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Significats de inept en anglès

Not elegant or graceful in expression.

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Generally incompetent and ineffectual.

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Examples for "awkward"
Examples for "awkward"
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This takes us back to the awkward problem of money and priorities.
The Guardian
2
Which is a relatively friendly and diplomatic solution to an awkward situation.
Medium raw: a bloody valentine to the world of food and the peop...
3
Today was the first time he'd seen her since that awkward introduction.
Agent 6
4
The Director said to smooth awkward situation he would just stand around.
The new yorker
5
The routes are awkward; the companies involved do not coordinate their efforts.
The Guardian
1
The top bolt was within easy reach of his clumsy right paw.
Dogsbody
2
It was the crisis, and into it Mollie intruded with clumsy tread.
Ben Blair / The Story of a Plainsman
3
Its confusion rendered it clumsy; and the mistake cost it its life.
More Hunting Wasps
4
My work boots felt way too clumsy with their thick rubber soles.
Delta girls
5
For a moment Powell yearned to blast this well-meaning clumsy young normal.
The Demolished Man
1
Existing legislation is cumbersome, complicated and ineffective in our increasingly urban society.
The Irish Times
2
That's one way to solve the storage problem, albeit a cumbersome one.
Wired
3
The structure of the proposed Public Services Standards Commission is unduly cumbersome.
The Irish Times
4
However, the interpretation of shear modulus distribution is often confusing and cumbersome.
Pubmed
5
His enormous sea shells, cast in polished bronze, are cumbersome and costly.
The Guardian
1
Nothing had changed her mood since his uncle paid his ill-chosen visit.
Winding Paths
2
Given that the film is quite dull, that title now looks supremely ill-chosen.
The Irish Times
3
In form it seemed perfect-nota superfluous or an ill-chosen word.
A Backward Glance at Eighty: Recollections & Comment
4
I perceived that what I had said was an ill-chosen thing.
Tales of Wonder
5
Reformers are apt to be pelted with epithets quite as ill-chosen.
Women and the Alphabet: A Series of Essays
1
Grey was a charming study in sepia. The description was not inapt.
The Lamp of Fate
2
Malcolm thought Cedric's name of Dr. Dryasdust was not an inapt title.
Herb of Grace
3
Her defense was weak and inapt but she attained her object.
War and Peace
4
So much Alaric had learnt, and had been no inapt scholar.
The Three Clerks
5
Why, he fetches up all the inapt, disagreeable, and harrowing things in his life.
New Tabernacle Sermons

Revealing lack of perceptiveness or judgment or finesse.

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Ús de inept en anglès
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Quite another to borrow money to fund a bloated, inept, patronage-driven state.
The South African
2
Back in the day, they used to be extremely hapless and inept.
The Guardian
3
Greece's national accounts turned out to be fiction and the state inept.
The Guardian
4
Seeking reaction from Argentinians who were so horribly inept is heavy work.
The Irish Times
5
At first, I thought it was a comment on my inept synopsis.
The Guardian
6
Once again, your job is to protect the inept rodents from themselves.
The Irish Times
7
He said: do not be discomposed by the opinions of inept persons.
South Wind
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Here you are, you say, delivered to me by your inept protector.
Wizard at Large
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He wanted to cause confusion and make us look and feel inept.
Tough customer: a novel
10
If the narcissist fails in therapy - his analyst must be inept.
The Developmental Psychology of Psychopathology
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He asked himself how he could have been so stupid, so inept.
Joe Burke's Last Stand
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He was as brilliant a potentate as he was inept a lover.
Complete Books of Blood
13
A man so inept, he hires his own informer to expose him.
The Silver Pigs
14
But the costly Brexit referendum confirmed that Cameron is inept in a crisis.
The Guardian
15
He was right; the competition has been scattered, and mostly inept.
The Guardian
16
The results so far have been provocative but ultimately inept, messy.
The Guardian
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