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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
inept/ɪˈnept/

▶adjective incompetent; awkward or clumsy.

– derivatives
ineptitude noun,
ineptly adverb,
ineptness noun.

– origin C16 (in the sense ‘unsuitable’): from L. ineptus, from in- ‘not’ + aptus (see apt).

'inept' also found in these Oxford entries:

amateur - amateurish - cack-handed - dipshit - dipstick - dork - dweeb - geek - joker - lame - lamer - nimrod - painful - plonker - Poindexter - sad sack - schlump - schmo - spod - stumblebum - turkey - wally

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