All 4 Uses of
inept
in
Catch-22
- It made him proud to observe that twenty-nine months in the service had not blunted his genius for ineptitude.†
Chpt 3 *
- The chaplain was despondent with an acceptance of his own ineptitude.†
Chpt 20
- The chaplain glanced at the bridge table that served as his desk and saw only the abominable orange-red pear-shaped plum tomato he had obtained that same morning from Colonel Cathcart, still lying on its side where he had forgotten it like an indestructible and incamadine symbol of his own ineptitude.†
Chpt 25
- All he could ever see was Aarfy, with whose fustian, moon-faced ineptitude he had finally lost all patience, and there were minutes of agonizing fury and frustration in the sky when he hungered to be demoted again to a wing plane with a loaded machine gun in the compartment instead of the precision bombsight that he really had no need for, a powerful, heavy fifty-caliber machine gun he could seize vengefully in both hands and turn loose savagely against all the demons tyrannizing him:…†
Chpt 30
Definition:
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(inept) not skilled