Both Uses of
inept
in
Pygmalion
- THE BYSTANDER [inept at definition] It's a—well, it's a copper's nark, as you might say.†
Act 1 *
- In the radiance of these discoveries, and the tumult of their reaction, she made a fool of herself as freely and conspicuously as when she so rashly adopted Eliza's expletive in Mrs. Higgins's drawing-room; for the new-born Wellsian had to find her bearings almost as ridiculously as a baby; but nobody hates a baby for its ineptitudes, or thinks the worse of it for trying to eat the matches; and Clara lost no friends by her follies.†
Act 5
Definition:
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(inept) not skilled