Sentence examples for rather inept from inspiring English sources

A rather inept bit of advice.

A failed businessman until his father died, Canning is now inordinately rich, if rather inept and formless.

He doesn't mince words about those who now run Mustique, calling them "smug, small-minded people, mostly rather inept".

Even the rather inept Tsarnaev brothers, who only managed to kill three people, did an excellent job of picking a target that dominated the news cycle.

For a long time, pterosaurs were regarded as rather inept fliers and little more than unusual gliding reptiles, but this view has been overturned with more modern studies.

The civic chores are supposed to be shouldered by the American-dominated Coalition Provisional Authority, led by L. Paul Bremer III, but the C.P.A. remains isolated and rather inept at implementation.

(The Times editorial page says the White House "once again demonstrated that it would rather look inept than open").

The creators of the voice synthesis software Vocaloid made the rather comically inept mistake of conflating race with the soul genre, which is typically sung with an American accent.

There's a reason that her villains are not bankers who gamble with people's mortgages and life savings but rather an inept, bloated government screwing its overtaxed citizens by messing with the money supply and stomping all over their civil liberties.

At the time, he was described as being less opinionated than his brother, who had a reputation as fiercely bright but rather socially inept.

I had always been a bit of a shut-in during high school, with two or three others making up a rather socially inept and depressingly small circle of friends.