Definition: revealing lack of perceptiveness or judgment or finesse
Usage: an inept remark; it was tactless to bring up those disagreeable
Definition: generally incompetent and ineffectual
Usage: feckless attempts to repair the plumbing; inept handling of the account
Main entry: inept, ill-chosen, inapt, cumbersome, awkward, clumsy
Definition: not elegant or graceful in expression
Usage: 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?