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inept Adjective 1. awkward, clumsy, or incompetent 2. not suitable or fitting; out of place [Latin in- not + aptus fitting] ineptitude n
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inept adjective 1. incompetent, bungling, clumsy, cowboy (informal) awkward, bumbling, gauche, cack-handed (informal) inexpert, maladroit, unskilful, unhandy, unworkmanlike << OPPOSITE competent adjective 2. unsuitable, inappropriate, out of place, ridiculous, absurd, meaningless, pointless, unfit, improper, inapt, infelicitous, malapropos << OPPOSITE appropriate Translations |
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, though as a criticism it is curiously inept, reveals his own attitude admirably: "Let us remember that we should not disregard the experience of ages; in the multitude of years, these things, if they were good, would certainly not have been unknown; for almost everything has been found out, although sometimes they are not put together; in other cases men do not use the knowledge which they have. What women's acuteness really respects are the inept "ideas" and the sheeplike impulses by which our actions and opinions are determined in matters of real importance. For, after all, I had only to act my part; unless Raffles failed where he never did fail, unless Raffles the neat and noiseless was for once clumsy and inept, all I had to do was indeed to "smile and smile and be a villain. |
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