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ineptly





ADVERB
incompetently
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Ineptly deployed, it may even put a brake on the deal-making a resolution will almost certainly require, analysts say.

From Reuters • Jul. 21, 2011

Ineptly and tirelessly, the descendants of Socrates neglected to ask fundamental questions.

From Time Magazine Archive

Ineptly smothering his own sputtering guffaws, Joe frantically thrust up his hands, again wiggling the fingertips for silence.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols

I in the back of the garden, the last of the gods, in a corner, Ineptly formed, must I stand.

From Erotica Romana by Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von




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