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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, clunky [informal]
    
2. Generally incompetent and ineffectual
   "inept handling of the account";
   - feckless
    
3. Revealing lack of perceptiveness, judgment or finesse
   "an inept remark";
   - tactless

See also: incompetent, infelicitous, maladroit

Encyclopedia: Inept