inept
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(s) 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?
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(s) generally incompetent and ineffectual
- feckless attempts to repair the plumbing
- inept handling of the account
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(s) revealing lack of perceptiveness or judgment or finesse
- an inept remark
- it was tactless to bring up those disagreeable