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What does inept mean?

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Adjective
  1. Not able to do something; not proficient; displaying incompetence.
  2. Unfit; unsuitable.
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Their years of management were pretty inept and brought about a tenfold increase in water prices.
Those inept, self-important idiots ran that place into the ground, creating unnecessary crises through decades of obstinate mismanagement.
The company had the most wonderful technology coupled with lethally inept management.
The fault lies clearly, yet again, with inefficient and inept council officers and management.
Only the most inept of dramatists could deliver a romance so completely lacking in depth and subtlety.
Even where love is blind, it was obvious that Julian had been inept at studies, and his prospects were fair at best.

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