ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD INEPT
From Latin ineptus, from in-1 + aptus fitting, suitable.
10 QUOTES WITH «INEPT»
Famous quotes and sentences with the word
inept.
I'm very disappointed with the McCain campaign. In my opinion, it was inept.
Self-promotion has never been a point, and I'm incredibly inept at self-promotion.
For the first few months, I was a comically inept parent. The first night home from the hospital, I held her bare body against my bare chest until a friend who was a doctor came by and asked what I was doing, and told me to put some clothes on that baby.
Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept business types are known as 'suits'.
I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. What I do, in my opinion, is by no means extraordinary.
If people are failing, they look inept. If people are succeeding, they look strong and good and competent. That's the 'halo effect.' Your first impression of a thing sets up your subsequent beliefs. If the company looks inept to you, you may assume everything else they do is inept.
A surprising number of American skyjackers were not yet old enough to drink or sometimes even drive. These adolescents were generally inept at planning their crimes, and few of their capers met with any success; most seemed to end within moments of starting, usually after a fatherly pilot convinced the nervous teen to hand over his gun.
Young people have this almost romantic attachment to civil rights, liberties, emancipating people from oppression, etc. The idea that such oppression exists in this country offends me, but it's able to be pushed and sold because education in this country is so woefully incompetent and inept.
Ooh, it's too embarrassing to share my innermost romantic secrets - although I have written Danielle the odd poem. If anything they are more comedic than romantic. They used to be well-received but that was before she started studying Shakespeare at drama college. Now I feel so inept.
My emotions lose their force when I endeavor to interpret them, and my words seem very inept.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «INEPT»
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inept in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
inept and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Wall Street Revalued: Imperfect Markets and
Inept Central ...
In 2000 one of the world’s foremost economists, Andrew Smithers, showed that the US stock market was widely over-priced at its peak and correctly advised investors to sell.
2
Difficult Reputations: Collective Memories of the Evil, ...
Arguing the need for understanding real conditions that lead to proposed interpretations, as well as how reputations are given meaning over time, this book marks an important contribution to the sociologies of culture and knowledge.
3
Incantation of the Law Against
Inept Critics: A Guide to ...
Morten St. George's original decoding of the Nostradamus prophecies combined with philosophical considerations. Includes commentary on fifty quatrains once considered by St. George as true-prophecy candidates.
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The World's Worst: A Guide to the Most Disgusting, Hideous, ...
This is all well and good, but the real entertainment is to be found not in the cream of the crop, but at the bottom of the barrel. The World's Worst is a celebration/indictment of nearly 50 infamous and little-known exemplars of the awful.
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The Gift Giving Handbook for the
Inept Man: Thousands of ...
Over 3,000 tremendous gift suggestions combined with hundreds of answers to her wants, needs, and favorite items makes The Gift Giving Handbook For The Inept Man the ultimate resource for gift giving ideas. Book jacket.
Timothy B. Schnabel, 2003
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NMR Spectroscopy Techniques, Second Edition,
The use of an INEPT sequence for spectral editing arises from the fact that
individual components of doublets, triplets, and quartets precess to different
relative positions during the A delay time. The first delay time T is chosen such
that the ...
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Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
The INEPT experiment does not require any particular relaxation mechanism and
therefore a better enhancement factor can be obtained.88 Furthermore it is
demonstratedthat INEPT sequence can be used to determine the multiplicity of
each ...
8
Revelation: God's Word for the Biblically-
Inept
A guide to the book of Revelation explores the scripture, presents the interpretations of experts, and comments on the implications of the text
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Matthew: God's Word for the Biblically-
Inept
Readers will learn about Christ's ascension, Pentecost, the spread of the Gospel, and the rapid growth of the church.
Dewey M. Bertolini, Rebecca Bertolini, 2002
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In Situ NMR Methods in Catalysis
4.1 INEPT The basic INEPT experiment (Insensitive Nuclei Enhanced by
Polarization Transfer) was originally developed to increase the signal strength for
nuclides with a low gyromagnetic ratio and a low natural abundance [29,30].
Joachim Bargon, Lars T. Kuhn, 2007
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «INEPT»
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inept is used in the context of the following news items.
Chinese Data Breach Gets Inept Official Fired
Katherine Archuleta has been forced out as director of the Office of Personnel Management in the wake of a data breach, attack really, that ... «Newsmax, Jul 15»
Odds & Ends: 'S Wonderful News for Robert Fairchild, Watch Daniel …
Odds & Ends: 'S Wonderful News for Robert Fairchild, Watch Daniel Radcliffe Be an Inept Receptionist & More. News By Imogen Lloyd Webber ... «Broadway.com, Jul 15»
'Inept' crowd control led to Andhra stampede - The Tribune
Lack of coordination among government agencies, inept crowd management and failure to follow the guidelines of the National Disaster ... «Chandigarh Tribune, Jul 15»
INEPT U.S. deal with Iran worse than imagined - Opinion - Paducah …
Ronald Reagan is remembered for his use of the term "trust, but verify" with regard to arms control negotiations. It is actually a Russian proverb. «Paducah Sun, Jul 15»
Riddled with clichés, routinely inept: Harper Lee's Go Set a …
This is an interesting document, and a pretty bad novel. I don't know why anyone thought it would be otherwise. In 1960, Harper Lee published ... «Spectator.co.uk, Jul 15»
The NAO savages the government's inept "100000 homes" drive
The National Audit Office's report on the government's sales of public land for new homes makes for uncomfortable reading. But it's not just land ... «Open Democracy, Jul 15»
Working class bears the brunt of inept union leaders
Whatever the outcome of Cosatu's special national congress, everyone is a loser, more so the working class. «Times LIVE, Jul 15»
The BBC stumbles from crisis to crisis with inept management and …
Five months ago, the House of Commons Culture Committee issued an important report into the future of the BBC, seen as the opening salvo in ... «The Independent, Jul 15»
Most inept Aquino functionary now campaigning for Senate seat
OF ALL the despicable functionaries of the Aquino administration, the most notoriously inept seems to be Metropolitan Manila Development ... «Inquirer.net, Jul 15»
Karlovy Vary Film Review: 'Stop'
It's a pretty muddled, irrational rant, though one hour into this shrill, grievously inept eco-thriller, viewers are likely to share his wish. Less grisly ... «Variety, Jul 15»
