inept

Modifies a noun

• handling: I strongly criticize the area office for their inept handling of the matter.
• attempt: During an inept attempt at suicide he receives a phone call telling him of his father's sudden death.
• display: City went through to the next round with the most inept display of football seen at Highfield Road for some years.
• performance: Lazy writing, some inept performances this is ignoring some simply plainly funny ideas.
• film: To start off with the film can't decide wether to be a comedy or an inept horror film.
• management: It is also a reminder of the consequences of ineffective and inept management " .

Modifying Another Word

• comically: Their version of George Harrison's ' If I Needed Someone ' is comically inept.
• socially: Could there be a more socially inept group of the population?
• woefully: United's next opponents are labeled " woefully inept " by the BBC.
• technically: Day Two Being technically inept I couldn't work out how to charge the phone.
• politically: Richard is politically inept; Henry is a shrewd political operator.
• utterly: In fact, throw in the utterly inept pre-cert video cover ( 'Hi Mommy, look what we painted at nursery school today!

Used with adjective complement

• prove: The army called for a new Parliament of Puritan saints, who proved as inept as the Rump.
• look: On Saturday there were times when the backs looked inept.
• appear: No political campaign is ever perfect but by comparison our opponents appeared inept, dull and out of touch with the public.
• seem: Even so, the description ' violently ' and the comparison with Wookey Hole would still seem inept.
• become: You just have to stay up to date with who's banging who, or else you become completely socially inept.