This was used to proximate social skills since the socially inept would be unlikely to have lots of friends.
Historians have even speculated that he was partly-Jewish himself - or even that his mother died at the hands of an inept Jewish physician.
The choice of Lady Chatterley as a test-case was inept, but it suited the anti-intellectual temper of the legal establishment and it would mean the defeat of an impeccably liberal cause.
It sounds like an utterly horrid lifestyle, visited as a punishment on the socially inept and inadequate. If you believe the BBC report, that is.
It is sad that it should have been put in such an inept way that the only answers came in the form of burnt effigies, grisly threats-and a great deal of sincerely outraged protest.
I was very gullible and children would ridicule me for being socially inept.
Until the promotion of Ulysses S. Grant, the North’s victory in the civil war was held back by a series of inept generals—to the exasperation of Lincoln, who liked to read up on military strategy.
The irascible, autocratic Ford would prove as inept a chief executive in his later years as he had been brilliant in his youth.
With a gentleness that blurred into docility, Hermann was to prove inept as a businessman and forever impractical in financial matters.
"The emperor had been in a state of pitiable vacillation" (William Hickling Prescott). Sometimes the terms connote contemptuous pity, as for what is hopelessly inept or inadequate.
In the service of the empress, this inept chauffeur faced no legal sanction for the mishap.
The police have proven peculiarly inept at stemming sporadic but recurrent bouts of sectarian strife.
