inept
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As post-conviction lawyers who now represent Carruthers have said, his trial performance was “singularly inept, ineffective, and disastrous.”
From Slate • Apr. 20, 2026
Just because such comparisons are almost laughably inept doesn’t mean they don’t have real world stakes.
From Salon • Apr. 14, 2026
A party insider described talk of a leadership challenge before May to me as "politically inept".
From BBC • Dec. 3, 2025
The smartest guy in the room could also be strangely inept at reading the room.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025
Fred had long seemed to think that his little brother was just a bit inept, and that he needed to set him straight on any number of things.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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