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adjective

Inept adj.

Not apt or fit; unfit; unsuitable; improper; unbecoming. "The Aristotelian philosophy is inept for new discoveries."

Silly; useless; nonsensical; absurd; foolish. "To view attention as a special act of intelligence, and to distinguish it from consciousness, is utterly inept."

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Etymology of 'Inept'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Inept" Quotes from Famous Books

... King addressed them: 'Welcome, Heralds sage! And if from God I welcome you the more, Since great is God, and therefore great His gifts: God grant He send them daily, heaped and huge! Speak without fear, for him alone I hate Who brings ill news, or makes inept demand Unmeet for Kings. I know that Cross ye bear; And in my palace sits a Christian wife, Bertha, the sweetest lady in this land; Most gracious in her ways, in heart most leal. I knew her yet a child: she knelt whene'er The Queen, her mother, entered: ...

— Legends of the Saxon Saints • Aubrey de Vere

... exercises which they look upon as a sort of purely masculine game—game meaning a respectable occupation devised to kill time in this man-arranged life which must be got through somehow. What women's acuteness really respects are the inept 'ideas' and the sheep-like impulses by which our actions and opinions are determined in matters of real importance. For if women are not rational they are indeed acute. Even Mrs Fyne was acute. The good woman was making up to her husband's chess-player simply because ...

— Chance - A Tale in Two Parts • Joseph Conrad

... the enterprise. He put in a goodly sum of money that never came back to him; and if he cooeperated but indifferently, or worse, he was not more inept than some of his associates. He was displeased to learn that the McComases had given enough to the guarantee-fund to insure them a box. And it offended him that, on the opening night, his former wife, one of a large and assertive party, should make her voice heard ...

— On the Stairs • Henry B. Fuller

... try to sleep in the house, it ort to be opened up and sunned a little; you better let me have the key now," observed Judith, assuming airs of proprietorship over his inept masculinity. ...

— Judith of the Cumberlands • Alice MacGowan

... tithe as excellent and practicable. But Charlie babbled on serenely, interrupting the current of pure fancy with samples of horrible sentences that he purposed to use. I heard him out to the end. It would be folly to allow his idea to remain in his own inept hands, when I could do so much with it. Not all that could be done indeed; but, oh ...

— Indian Tales • Rudyard Kipling

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