Examples of inept

• Some judges are inattentive or cognitively inept, for example.

• The inept use of the formal style would only result in ridicule, pomposity and ineffectiveness.

• Both areas had a history of economic decline presided over by inept and corrupt government.

• It moved considerably beyond punk music of inept musicians, three chords and 4:4 time.

• Consequently, caught between spiralling crime and inept police, the local population began to organize its own %!

• These accounts can be read also as a reaction against the prevailing views that women were ' weaker' and more 'inept ' than their male counterparts.

• Sometimes it is simply employing inexperienced or inept workers when skilled labour is in short supply.

• The ambitious program of government reform proposed in 1900, including roads, bridges, the telegraph, and modernization of the ports, was undermined by inept application.

• The colonists, no matter how inept, were the cause of the strife that every member of the community faced.

• Ordinary garden variety theistic mystics seem to be either disinterested in fame and power or else are inept at generating much interest in their experiences.

• The noun mismanagement, for instance, can be paraphrased as 'the condition of mismanaging' or as 'inept management'.

• Is inept caregiving an expression of parent inadequacy or a reaction to prior experience with the child?

• We can see her frustration at being so inept at communication.

• Besides, men in this culture could not cook or tend to household needs and were inept in the care of children.

• What will our children and their children think of our inept inaction?