Awkwardly, clumsily

Usage examples of ineptly.

Ineptly smothering his own sputtering guffaws, Joe frantically thrust up his hands, again wiggling the fingertips for silence.

My Hellenism was cause for amusement, the more so in that ineptly I alternated between dissimulating and displaying it.

He hauled in a half-parsec of immaterial relatedness and began ineptly to experiment.

A small dark bat appears, flutters anxiously through the soft twilight, a flimsy prop on ineptly managed wires.

I speedily tired of Quadratus' captious arguments, and of those scraps of wisdom ineptly borrowed from the writings of our philosophers.

And there was even, Rivas noted with a wry grin, a street balladeer playing a pelican and ineptly singing "Everybody Wants to Smoke My Comoy.

Not at all ineptly, Mefistofele, who does not admire the Cherubs, likens their monotonous cantillation to the hum of bees.

The blue of the loch slid softly toward chalkiness, like an ineptly prepared painting left too long in direct sunlight.

Starved in their arid home of snowless crags and raw desert, the Masrians discovered the south with its rivers and alluvial plains, and the Hesseks, having withstood this change, as ever, stubbornly and ineptly, were thrown down and savaged with all the rest.

Reining his mare ineptly around, Ken trotted back to the group as Ben explained the maneuver necessary to turn the herd.