Sentence examples for inept manner from inspiring English sources

We'll lose because, at the end of the day, even wars that aren't fundamentally unjustified and infeasible can still be lost if they're prosecuted in a sufficiently inept manner.

Some commentators believe that the inept manner in which the political events were handled by the Soviet government was affected by the failing health of Andropov, who was permanently hospitalised in late September or early October 1983 (Andropov died the following February).

He had not curbed his socially inept and awkward manner, which was exacerbated by an eccentric tendency to dress in a deliberately unkempt fashion.

He writes that "the tragedy of the court's performance in the election of 2000 was not that it led to Bush's victory but the inept and unsavory manner with which the justices exercised their power".

Routine plot elements in his novels might include exploding ostriches, dogs high on LSD, inept spousal murder and all manner of inflatable things.

It features a group of "hilariously inept" politicians getting into all manner of scrapes around Westminster and beyond: in essence the sort of thing you'd get if a secondary school staged its take on The Thick of It.

Not in the politically adventurous manner of George Bush's inept comparison of the war on terror with the moral purpose of D-Day, but a broader concern about the judgment of history.

One thing about Australia's recent Carlton Mid Series against the Proteas that struck me as being particularly inept was the perfunctory and unceremonious manner in which Steve Smith was acknowledged as player-of-the-series, receiving little more than a handshake before Mark Nicholas threw to the end credits and another post-cricket airing of Christopher Reeve-era Superman.

At its core it is an inept, cliche-ridden story edited together in a treacly and cheap manner.

But politically inept, no.

"Incredibly inept," says one.