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Example sentences for "inept"

Lexicographically close words:
inelegantly; ineligibility; ineligible; ineluctable; inen; ineptitude; inequalities; inequality; inequitable; inequities
  1. Also the sad knowledge that of all the fair things seen, the inept pen gives but a feeble and blurred picture.

  2. The inept and the weakly died en route or went under in the days of construction.

  3. And as to this species of monarchy; men are never left at liberty to clothe therewith any inept or impious person.

  4. He is, despite his talents for deception, a poor popular psychologist, and so he made an inept effort to fetch the girls by tear-squeezing: every connoisseur will remember his bathos about breaking the heart of the world.

  5. In normal times a Russian gala performance would have begun with the National Anthem, but at that date nothing could have been more inept than to sing God Save the Tsar.

  6. For nearly a year, save for an inept power of creeping, with but small sense of direction, it requires to be moved and carried everywhere.

  7. The inept thing cannot even tell them what it wants.

  8. Was there ever a more inept and untruthful comparison?

  9. About the same time, there occurred one of the most glaring instances within my recollection of inept conventionalism.

  10. And most of the aggressions and annexations of the modern period have arisen out of the inconveniences and reasonable fears caused by such an inept phase.

  11. If we fail to do that, then all the inept states and all the subject states about the world will become one great field for the sowing of tares by the enemy.

  12. It is possible to read anything you please into Turner's work, for it is chiefly of the frankest impressionism; but to say that he felt and did all these things is criticism of the most inept Penny Reading order.

  13. It is inept to despair of free education because free education has produced no very satisfactory results while conceived of as a process of shoving undesired knowledge into the children of the poor.

  14. They had gone on to sweep from existence inept bands of pecculant Bedouins and discovered that the ineptity was wholly their own.

  15. The government could not constrain rural majorities with the officials chosen by the selfish and inept rural majorities.

  16. The question of the Russian Duchess Anne Was quite inept for further toying with.

  17. It may not be inept to state a truism of this kind in a world of novels where the climax of life, if not indeed its very conclusion, is held to be reached on the day of marriage!

  18. But, leaving this aside, what is more inept than the verse Harsh and troublesome, by Jupiter!

  19. It is a kind of argument dear to minds pre-convinced and incapable of a logical revision, but worse than inept as against opponents; and it availed no more in Berkeley's hands than it had done in those of Huet.

  20. In the brain of the working man, in the place where the bourgeois carry their inept and brutal prejudices, there is a great cavity.

  21. So pitiable and inept was that useless lie.

  22. When the malicious irony of fate cast his lot in among our black ranks, we laughed like maniacs at the thought that such absurd inept mistakes could actually be made.

  23. There is usually something inept in speaking of a man, and especially an artist, as interchangeable with any ism.

  24. I do not wish at this point to become pious and solemn in tone; that would be inept in connection with Wells.

  25. Has there been anything in history more inept than the 16th of May?

  26. In this case your silence is inept and cowardly.

  27. I think that we shall soon see abominable things, thanks to the inept stubbornness of the Right.

  28. But the masses must be respected, however inept they may be, because they contain the germs of an incalculable fecundity.

  29. He said: do not be discomposed by the opinions of inept persons.

  30. Inept political and financial crisis management led Albania to the verge of disintegration and a civil war.


  31. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "inept" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    apish; artless; asinine; awkward; bad; batty; beguiled; besotted; brainless; bumbling; clumsy; cockeyed; crazy; credulous; daft; dazed; dizzy; doting; dumb; fatuous; flaky; fond; fool; foolish; fuddled; futile; gauche; graceless; halting; headless; helpless; hopeless; idiotic; ignorant; imbecile; impolitic; impotent; improper; inadmissible; inadvisable; inane; inapplicable; inapposite; inappropriate; inapt; inattentive; incapable; incompetent; incongruous; ineffective; inefficient; inept; inexpedient; inexperienced; inexpert; infatuated; infelicitous; inferior; inopportune; insane; insensate; irrational; irrelevant; labored; loony; loutish; lumbering; mad; maladroit; maudlin; mediocre; mindless; mismatched; misplaced; nutty; pedestrian; poor; reasonless; sappy; screwy; senseless; sentimental; silly; stupid; tactless; thoughtless; unable; unadapted; unapt; unbecoming; unbefitting; uncomely; undesirable; undue; unendowed; unfit; unfortunate; unhandy; unhappy; unintelligent; unqualified; unreasoning; unseasonable; unseemly; unskilled; unskillful; unsuitable; unsuited; unthinking; untimely; unwise; useless; weak; wet; witless; wooden; wrong