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Definition of Ineptly

1. Adverb. With ineptitude; in an incompetent manner. "He performed his functions ineptly"

2. Adverb. In an infelicitous manner. "This function is ineptly left to a small voice"

Definition of Ineptly

1. adv. Unfitly; unsuitably; awkwardly.

Definition of Ineptly

1. Adverb. In an inept or incompetent manner. ¹

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Definition of Ineptly

1. inept [adv] - See also: inept

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ineptly

ineloquent ineloquently ineluctability ineluctable ineluctably ineludible inembryonate inenarrable inenubilable inenumerable

inept inepter ineptest ineptitude ineptitudes ineptly (current term) ineptness ineptnesses ineptocracies ineptocracy

inequable inequal inequalitarian inequalitarianism inequalitarians inequalities inequality inequally inequation inequations

Literary usage of Ineptly

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The works of Ralph Cudworth by Ralph Cudworth (1829)
"... or that so much as any one thing therein is made ineptly. There are" indeed many things in the frame of nature, which we cannot reach to the reasons of, ..."

2. The Cabinet History of England, Civil, Military and Ecclesiastical: From the by Charles MacFarlane (1851)
"Lafayette, who ineptly figured during the first stages of the French revolution, became on his return to his own country a sort of popular idol; ..."

3. The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and by Ralph Cudworth, Johann Lorenz Mosheim (1845)
"... or that so much as any one thing therein is made ineptly. There are indeed many things in the frame of nature, which we cannot reach to the reasons of, ..."

4. The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and by Ralph Cudworth, Johann Lorenz Mosheim (1845)
"... or that so much as any one thing therein is made ineptly. There are indeed many things in the frame of nature, which we cannot reach to the reasons of, ..."

5. The Works by John Howe, Edmund Calamy (1835)
"And do not think Scripture speaks ineptly, or unsuitably to the case, when it bids them that are recovered out of the common misery, that lay upon the world ..."

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