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