ineptin a sentence
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an inept remark
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By all accounts, James was a bright boy, but socially inept.† (source)
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If the Japanese are this inept, Phil thought, America will win this war.† (source)
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Still tut-tutting about dangerous sports and inept teachers, Madam Pomfrey retreated, leaving Ron and Hermione to help Harry gulp down some water.† (source)
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Partly it was common sense: if inept users locked up the system—and men called you for help—you always had a way to get in and repair the mess.† (source)
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These people were something Germanic and sectarian, crossbred with seventh-generation Puritans — an industrious but fervent mix that produced, in addition to the usual collection of virtuous, lumpen farmers, three circuit riders, two inept land speculators, and one petty embezzler — chancers with a visionary streak and one eye on the horizon.† (source)
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It was a question circling the meshnet, asked with rising anger, and most of the blame was coming down on an inept government that should have protected us more.† (source)
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At length, from Forte's ineptitude and lurching clumsiness, a fight broke out between them.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-itude" converts an adjective to a noun.
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He understood, now, finally, that he was a bit of a dullard at doing this trick, but it was the only one he knew, and if he always ended up doing it ineptly, he at least never failed to do it with love.† (source)
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Cedric watches the party unfold, feeling the room's pounding energy flow through him, while he tries to reconcile himself with crushing ineptness.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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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.† (source)
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He'd doubted it until now, wondered how the Runners could be so inept.† (source)
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This had not been a fair fight, even though they had won—the teachers had meant them to lose, and it was only Bonzo's ineptitude that had saved them.† (source)
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CHEEVER, ineptly reaching toward Elizabeth: No, no, I am forbid to leave her from my sight.† (source)
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Abby passed her to Red, who made a big show of dismay and ineptness but later was caught pressing his nose to her downy head, drawing in a long deep breath of baby smell.† (source)
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You are not going to pass off your many ineptitudes on the students of Hogwarts.† (source)
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