Adjective
1. 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?"2. generally incompetent and ineffectual;
"feckless attempts to repair the plumbing""inept handling of the account"3. revealing lack of perceptiveness or judgment or finesse;
"an inept remark""it was tactless to bring up those disagreeable"