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Sentence example with the word 'inept'
inept
apish, daffy, goofy, ill-sorted, incapable of, kooky, mismated, pin-brained, unapt, unhandy, untimely
Definition
adj.
not elegant or graceful in expression
Last update: February 2, 2017
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I have never heard anyone so
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at making speeches.
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At best they were seen as well-meaning do-gooders and at worst
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meddlers.
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I've always been a little
inept
at expressing my feelings.
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She made some remark deliciously
inept
--I wish I could remember it.
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A commonplace message, written or telephoned, would be
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.
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But the great American hotel is a classic, and to praise it may seem
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But the race was also in some ways strangely
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.
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_ do they really imagine that I am going to answer their
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effusions.
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What a storm of obloquy would have burst upon such
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diplomacy in America, or in England, or even in France.
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Congress was
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and had in it men, as the patient General Greene said, "without principles, honor or modesty."
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The one
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remark which Shelley seems ever to have made was that "there is nothing to see in France."
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