Inept Sentence Examples

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  • The study failed due to the inept scientist in charge of the research.

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  • Her inept efforts in cooking had disastrous results.

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  • I was amazed at how inept she was at her job.

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  • The inept plumber only made things worse; now our whole basement is flooded!

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  • She has proven herself to be inept at any kind of video game.

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  • Although intelligent, he was rather inept at word games.

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  • I never would have asked him to give a speech if I had known how inept he is at public speaking.

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  • When faced with his opponent, Will became suddenly inept at everything he had practiced.

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  • She was critized for her inept handling of the problem.

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  • After his trial period went terribly wrong, he has proven himself to be potitically inept.

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  • I've always been a little inept at expressing my feelings.

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  • He began to doodle, listing the names she was calling not only him, but the entire, inept, Parkside police force.

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  • Their version of George Harrison's ' If I Needed Someone ' is comically inept.

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  • Could there be a more socially inept group of the population?

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  • Day Two Being technically inept I couldn't work out how to charge the phone.

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  • His wife Mabel is socially inept and emotionally insecure.

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  • To start off with, the film can't decide whether to be a comedy or an inept horror film.

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  • At best they were seen as well-meaning do-gooders and at worst inept meddlers.

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  • Radio 3s New Music selection procedures are inept - if not fraudulent.

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  • No political campaign is ever perfect but by comparison our opponents appeared inept, dull and out of touch with the public.

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  • Even so, the description ' violently ' and the comparison with Wookey Hole would still seem inept.

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  • Josh was such an inept carpenter that he was rarely paid for his services.

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  • His process of planning for the event was characteristically inept.

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  • At the end of the show, Simpson commented that her band had made an error with the song.The fallout from the lip synching incident was brutal, with fans and critics taking stabs at Simpson's inept singing abilities.

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  • The Dutch grandees were not inept, and their time had come.

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  • Richard is politically inept; Henry is a shrewd political operator.

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  • The army called for a new Parliament of Puritan saints, who proved as inept as the Rump.

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  • On Saturday there were times when the backs looked inept.

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  • The path from darkness to light was lost; thought was involved in allegory; the study of nature had been perverted into an inept system of grotesque and pious parablemongering; the pursuit of truth had become a game of wordy dialectics.

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  • For her sake, he hoped they were being stalked by inept bandits and not by bloodthirsty warriors like those from Landis.

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  • United's next opponents are labeled " woefully inept " by the BBC.

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  • It was said above that the german militarists were inept as well as persistent.

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  • The division (often inept) of the text into chapters, the references to chapter and verse of a printed N.T., and sundry pious stanzas which interrupt the context, are due to a later editor, perhaps to the copyist of the existing text of 1782.

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  • He had thought her younger than forty when they first locked horns over the speeding ticket, but he was admittedly inept at guessing women's ages—or guessing practically anything about the fairer sex.

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  • You just have to stay up to date with who's banging who, or else you become completely socially inept.

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  • My mom is such an inept driver, she can't even back out of the driveway without hitting anything.

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  • Available at any time of the day or night, there are countless other sites such as these, all available to help students who find themselves scientifically inept.

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  • Music games, sometimes referred to as rhythm games, are games where even the most musically inept (such as myself) can establish some sort of rhythm and produce rockin' tunes.

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  • On the other hand, it could be that he is socially inept and just missing your cues of being interested and available.

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  • If he is available and just shy or socially inept, you will get this information as well.

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  • We may feel shy, too inept, or too inexperienced to do something so bold.

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  • My poor sister has been inept at every skill she has tried.

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  • Jamie might be a little socially inept, but she is the kindest person I know.

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