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?"表現が上品でない、または優雅ではない蕪雑
例:if the rumor is true, can anything be more inept than to repeat it now? もし噂が本当なら、今なおそれを繰り返すほど、ばかなことがあるだろうか
generally incompetent and ineffectual; "feckless attempts to repair the plumbing"; "inept handling of the account"一般に役に立たなくて無駄な無器用