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1. Not elegant or graceful in expression
   "if the rumour is true, can anything be more inept than to repeat it now?"
   - awkward, clumsy, cumbersome, inapt, ill-chosen
    
2. Generally incompetent and ineffectual
   "inept handling of the account"
   - feckless
    
3. Revealing lack of perceptiveness or judgment or finesse
   "an inept remark"
   - tactless

See also: incompetent, ineptly, ineptness, infelicitous, maladroit

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