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Meanings of inept in английском
Not elegant or graceful in expression.
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Examples for "awkward"
Examples for "awkward"
1
This takes us back to the awkward problem of money and priorities.
2
Which is a relatively friendly and diplomatic solution to an awkward situation.
3
Today was the first time he'd seen her since that awkward introduction.
4
The Director said to smooth awkward situation he would just stand around.
5
The routes are awkward; the companies involved do not coordinate their efforts.
1
The top bolt was within easy reach of his clumsy right paw.
2
It was the crisis, and into it Mollie intruded with clumsy tread.
3
Its confusion rendered it clumsy; and the mistake cost it its life.
4
My work boots felt way too clumsy with their thick rubber soles.
5
For a moment Powell yearned to blast this well-meaning clumsy young normal.
1
Existing legislation is cumbersome, complicated and ineffective in our increasingly urban society.
2
That's one way to solve the storage problem, albeit a cumbersome one.
3
The structure of the proposed Public Services Standards Commission is unduly cumbersome.
4
However, the interpretation of shear modulus distribution is often confusing and cumbersome.
5
His enormous sea shells, cast in polished bronze, are cumbersome and costly.
1
Nothing had changed her mood since his uncle paid his ill-chosen visit.
2
Given that the film is quite dull, that title now looks supremely ill-chosen.
3
In form it seemed perfect-nota superfluous or an ill-chosen word.
4
I perceived that what I had said was an ill-chosen thing.
5
Reformers are apt to be pelted with epithets quite as ill-chosen.
1
Grey was a charming study in sepia. The description was not inapt.
2
Malcolm thought Cedric's name of Dr. Dryasdust was not an inapt title.
3
Her defense was weak and inapt but she attained her object.
4
So much Alaric had learnt, and had been no inapt scholar.
5
Why, he fetches up all the inapt, disagreeable, and harrowing things in his life.
Usage of inept in английском
1
Quite another to borrow money to fund a bloated, inept, patronage-driven state.
2
Back in the day, they used to be extremely hapless and inept.
3
Greece's national accounts turned out to be fiction and the state inept.
4
Seeking reaction from Argentinians who were so horribly inept is heavy work.
5
At first, I thought it was a comment on my inept synopsis.
6
Once again, your job is to protect the inept rodents from themselves.
7
He said: do not be discomposed by the opinions of inept persons.
8
Here you are, you say, delivered to me by your inept protector.
9
He wanted to cause confusion and make us look and feel inept.
10
If the narcissist fails in therapy - his analyst must be inept.
11
He asked himself how he could have been so stupid, so inept.
12
He was as brilliant a potentate as he was inept a lover.
13
A man so inept, he hires his own informer to expose him.
14
But the costly Brexit referendum confirmed that Cameron is inept in a crisis.
15
He was right; the competition has been scattered, and mostly inept.
16
The results so far have been provocative but ultimately inept, messy.
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Inept through the time
Inept across language varieties
Ireland
Common
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Less common