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Bumbling vs. Inept

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Bumblingnoun

The act of one who bumbles; a mistake or error, especially through clumsiness.

Ineptadjective

Not able to do something; not proficient; displaying incompetence.

Bumblingadjective

Acting in a confused or ineffectual way; incompetent; showing little or no skill.

‘a bumbling fool’;

Ineptadjective

Unfit; unsuitable.

Bumbling

not skillful in physical movement especially with the hands; as, a bumbling mechanic.

Ineptadjective

Not apt or fit; unfit; unsuitable; improper; unbecoming.

‘The Aristotelian philosophy is inept for new discoveries.’;

Bumblingadjective

not skillful in physical movement especially with the hands;

‘a bumbling mechanic’; ‘a bungling performance’; ‘ham-handed governmental interference’; ‘could scarcely empty a scuttle of ashes, so handless was the poor creature’;

Ineptadjective

Silly; useless; nonsensical; absurd; foolish.

‘To view attention as a special act of intelligence, and to distinguish it from consciousness, is utterly inept.’;

Ineptadjective

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?’;

Ineptadjective

generally incompetent and ineffectual;

‘feckless attempts to repair the plumbing’; ‘inept handling of the account’;

Ineptadjective

revealing lack of perceptiveness or judgment or finesse;

‘an inept remark’; ‘it was tactless to bring up those disagreeable’;

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