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?"
generally incompetent and ineffectual; "feckless attempts to repair the plumbing"; "inept handling of the account"
revealing lack of perceptiveness or judgment or finesse; "an inept remark"; "it was tactless to bring up those disagreeable"
revealing lack of perceptiveness or judgment or finesse
