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Meaning of inept

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  inept
      adj 1: not elegant or graceful in expression; "an awkward prose
             style"; "a clumsy apology"; "his cumbersome writing
             style"; "if the rumor is true, can anything be more inept
             than to repeat it now?" [syn: {awkward}, {clumsy},
             {cumbersome}, {inapt}, {inept}, {ill-chosen}]
      2: generally incompetent and ineffectual; "feckless attempts to
         repair the plumbing"; "inept handling of the account" [syn:
         {feckless}, {inept}]
      3: revealing lack of perceptiveness or judgment or finesse; "an
         inept remark"; "it was tactless to bring up those
         disagreeable" [syn: {inept}, {tactless}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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