ineptly

I've never seen two sides defend so ineptly in all my life.

There he sees several women working on a fence, very ineptly.

The government has also dealt ineptly with energy conservation, he says.

A person who is good at programming quickly, though rather poorly and ineptly.

Frankly, I would have taken this as a suicide, however ineptly done.

And as ineptly as she had ever seen it done.

Only a few scraps of scenario were projected, and those sometimes ineptly.

You've seen how ineptly the younger soldiers are reacting in this crisis.

"Karl, I never meant for you to find out," she said, ineptly.

The mascara I had rather ineptly applied started to run down my cheeks.

Then why had he tried, so ineptly, to get his client to turn on him and kill him?

A recurring theme in the book is the pain caused when people try ineptly to help or to please others.

Rather than performing three cuisines ineptly, it should concentrate on doing one well.

The tax has been poorly explained to the public, partly because it was ineptly drafted.

The actual "war on terror" declared by this administration has been waged ineptly at best.

"We found that in ineptly trying to mimic people, we were creating something of our own as well."

However ineptly he expressed that concern, that was still what motivated him.

Diplomacy was a game they could only stumble through as ineptly as children.

The man, stumbling ineptly across the heath, was a major in Steele's own unit.

So ineptly had he parried that the sword was beaten out of his hand.

And even the potentially effective ideas were ineptly executed during this shaky opening performance.

If we do encourage an investigation on board, whether run intelligently or ineptly, what will be this person's natural reaction?

It looked to Evelyn as if Millicent tried, but ineptly.

Empire's managers performed ineptly, the study shows, yet they were lavishly rewarded.

Japanese diplomats had ineptly defined the issue in parochial, nationalistic terms.