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 inept [in'ept]   添加此单词到默认生词本
a. 不适当的, 不理智的, 笨拙的

[法] 不称职者, 无能的, 不符要求的




    inept
    [ adj ]
    1. not elegant or graceful in expression

    2. <adj.all>
      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?
    3. generally incompetent and ineffectual

    4. <adj.all>
      feckless attempts to repair the plumbing
      inept handling of the account
    5. revealing lack of perceptiveness or judgment or finesse

    6. <adj.all>
      an inept remark
      it was tactless to bring up those disagreeable


    Inept \In*ept"\, a. [L. ineptus; prefix. in- not + aptus apt,
    fit: cf. F. inepte. Cf. {Inapt}.]
    1. Not apt or fit; unfit; unsuitable; improper; unbecoming.

    The Aristotelian philosophy is inept for new
    discoveries. --Glanvill.

    2. Silly; useless; nonsensical; absurd; foolish.

    To view attention as a special act of intelligence,
    and to distinguish it from consciousness, is utterly
    inept. --Sir W.
    Hamilton.

    1. Through inept handling, they made the situation worse.
    2. Four years ago, Saatchi & Saatchi, on behalf of the Tories, easily outmaneuvered an inept Labor campaign.
    3. Modern-day Democrats, almost always inept in running presidential campaigns, remain clever in races for all the other offices.
    4. "President Bush has proven to be an inept communicator and has failed to convey to the public why we are in Saudi Arabia," Rep. Les Aspin, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, said Thursday.
    5. But mainly he is pictured as inept.
    6. Have you ever noticed that some chairs give you confidence, while others make you feel inept?
    7. Revenue and spending estimates made by the government in recent years have been woefully inept.
    8. He chastises Jo Franklin-Trout for her inept presentation of advocacy journalism, judging her project as "intellectually slipshod."
    9. The plea came five days after thousands of mutineers launched the strongest attempt yet to topple Mrs. Aquino's administration, which has been widely criticized as indecisive and inept.
    10. When he talks about corporate abuses, he means inept or greedy management, not dumping toxic wastes or closing factories.
    11. "Moms," by contrast, is totally inept as theater.
    12. I was an utter bungler - my casting was inept, my knowledge of basic entomology negligible, my ignorance of technnique absolute.
    13. "What transaction better, than man going to see his God?" The television, monitored in Nicosia, shows violent war movies in which the Iranians are rugged, clean-cut heroes and the Iraqis are invariably portrayed as sadistic and inept.
    14. Linda Winer in Newsday said: "'Shogun' is drivel, but it's not inept drivel.
    15. EARLIER this year the Prince of Wales went to a drought-stricken region of Britain to make some forthright remarks about water and the inept way in which it is managed.
    16. But he became disillusioned with Mrs. Aquino, accusing her of "weak and inept" leadership that fortified the 19-year-old communist insurgency.
    17. The election was widely seen as a verdict on the Aug. 6 dismissal of Ms. Bhutto's popularly-elected government by President Ghulam Ishaq Khan, who claimed hers was the most corrupt and inept government in Pakistan's 43 years.
    18. But Honasan later accused Mrs. Aquino of weak and inept leadership in the face of the 19-year-old communist insurgency.
    19. "President Bush has proven to be an inept communicator and has failed to convey to the public why we are in Saudi Arabia," Aspin said.
    20. One Conservative said his sacking had been 'tactically inept'. In public the former chancellor won sympathy from colleagues.
    21. And although we pity Ruth, she is so thoroughly repulsive, so annoyingly inept, that we sympathize with Bobbo at least as much as we blame him.
    22. "I think you will shortly be doing a story on this guy's the most inept, mud-covered regulator we've ever seen.
    23. PAP candidates told voters that inept legislators controlling the civil service could neglect rubbish collection, elevator repairs and other routine but chores.
    24. From my perspective, van operators are filling a void created by inept city management, and they are doing it much more efficiently.
    25. State officials say the factors that bedevil the insurance industry are the same as those that endangered the thrifts: lax and inept regulators, depressed real estate and oil markets and freespending company officials.
    26. A propos of a portrait of French king Jean Le Bon by an anonymous late-14th-century artist, he writes: "Nothing this inept monarch ever did became him so well as this commission, with which he inaugurated French painting."
    27. Their strategy is flawed; their tactics inept; their leader disappointing.
    28. Mainstream publishers will be inept at cultivating this market, since it is so foreign to them.
    29. False analogies to the S&L deregulation of the early 1980s have deterred bank reform and the Treasury Department has been spectacularly inept at showing that its plan flows from different premises.
    30. He said the transcript was "damning" for Yeltsin because it portrays him as inept just as he is trying to win a seat in the new Congress of People's Deputies.
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