Prone to bungling

Usage examples of inept.

Neither Hera nor Mag realized that Asterion knew of their entire, inept plan.

Had he not restored order to the beleaguered city of Palmaris while the inept King remained in Ursal, no doubt riding his private stock of horses and women?

Yet he sensed Boget was genuinely trying to understand him and his inept shipmates.

And most of the losses, he discovered by wading through endless fiches on accident boards, had been due to inept pilotage.

The inescapable conclusion that could be drawn from the utterly inept defense of Coruscant was that Ysanne Isard wanted the New Republic to take the world.

A group of young people danced, giggling, to the rather inept piping of old Solor Pek Raumul.

With every step Pilau looked less inept and, gathering as if for a leap like a long-jumper, he brought his lance up, his long slender arm flashing forward, in a toss that sent his missile up in a perfect ballistic arc.

I missed the kids, even the slumpy, acned, socially inept high school kids.

There was no telling how long Virgie had been conducting her own Darwinian efforts to stamp out the socially inept gene pool.

ANGEL II Ere the first fruit thereof grow audible, Holding as hapless his dream of good guardianship, Jestingly, earnestly, shouting it serviceless, Tardy, inept, and uncouthly designed.

Her inept acrostics, maudlin evasions, theopathies - every recollection formed ripples of mysterious meaning.

For every underqualified minority or woman, there were at least three white men who were equally inept: that was the true legacy of affirmative action, lowering the standards for everyone.

I was now frequenting the athenaeum reading rooms, where the very same loquacious gentleman whom I had encountered before, the mysterious Poe enthusiast, continued his regular appearances, reading the newspapers and gushing over the inept articles appearing in print on Edgar Poe.

If true, the Bedaux expedition must have been the most expensive and cumbersome cover operation ever mounted and Bedaux himself must go down as one of the most inept spies in history.

While the remaining Minids hooted at these inept brachiators, I went to Helen, lifted her to her feet, and led her back down the hillside to our tent.