Sentence examples for largely inept from inspiring English sources

He was comfortable in his slacks and suede-elbowed cardigans; resigned, when necessary, to paying a few quid to his largely inept mates from the pub to botch any building jobs around the house.

England batsmen are capable of working the spin around, but largely inept as a group when it comes to hitting, or attempting to hit, anything other than the slog-sweep.

A corrupt central government that does not serve its people, a largely inept army with some good leaders and some good units, plans by the U.S. to pull back from the countryside as part of the process of leaving, a lack of understanding of the culture and surrendering large swaths of the countryside to the enemy are all reminiscent of when we left Vietnam.

The only difference between the two films is that Silver Linings is set in my hometown of Philadelphia, an industrious but largely inept municipality that lends itself readily to depressing movies, whereas Side Effects is set in New York, the perfect backdrop for a movie about a sleepwalker who tends to get a bit frisky with the cutlery in the dead of night.

It is extremely expensive to crack the distribution channels on BREW, which are dominated by the bureaucratic and largely inept mobile operators.

Which wasn't necessarily the brightest move as the police where I grew up were half-assed and largely inept.

(Inept, because all options are intended to provide an incentive).

Taken together, they portray a governing bureaucracy that was largely indifferent and inept, except for the one area in which it was ruthlessly efficient: exacting compliance with the penal code promulgated by the Taliban's leader, Mullah Muhammad Omar.

The Mets believe they should have played this way all season, and if they miss the playoffs -- no matter how well they finish the season -- they will be bothered by the months they wasted, largely because of an inept offense.

At that time, with the empire gone and Britain slipping rapidly down all the world league tables of industrial and economic productivity, a widespread agreement emerged on both the left and right of politics that class was largely responsible for Britain's inept economic performance.Britain's much vaunted social and political stability had been bought at a price.

He was apparently not too pleased when he read a section in the Times leader describing him as "a lonely Pashtun" in a largely Tajik government, who promoted inept officials based on tribal loyalty and greed in his effort to stay in power.