Sample Sentences forinept (auto-selected)
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By all accounts, James was a bright boy, but socially inept.† (source)
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To Hawat, they appeared to be Fremen, but a curiously inept band.† (source)
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He'd doubted it until now, wondered how the Runners could be so inept.† (source)
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If the Japanese are this inept, Phil thought, America will win this war.† (source)
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"Let us hope you are not as inept as you look," Ser Alliser said.† (source)
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Shocking, really, that a romance novelist could be so inept at the language of the heart.† (source)
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He was trying to teach the "Hava Nagilia" to a rapt but inept circle of admirers.† (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)standard suffix: The suffix "-itude" converts an adjective to a noun.
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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)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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I've become patron saint of the socially inept.† (source)
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Still, Laila could not shake the feeling that at one time, before Ahmad and Noor had gone to war against the Soviets-before Babi had let them go to war-Mammy too had thought Babi's bookishness endearing, that, once upon a time, she too had found his forgetfulness and ineptitude charming.† (source)
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A blow, expected, repeated, falling on a bruise, with no smart or shock of surprise, only a dull and sickening pain and the doubt whether another like it could be borne—that was how it felt, sitting opposite Sebastian at dinner that night, seeing his clouded eye and groping movements, hearing his thickened voice breaking in, ineptly, after long brutish silences.† (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)
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You are not going to pass off your many ineptitudes on the students of Hogwarts.† (source)
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