ineptly

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Local security forces can handle a growing share of responsibility -- perhaps ineptly, as in Basra a few weeks ago or in Kabul last weekend, but that's their problem.

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  1. In an inept manner; unsuitably; awkwardly; foolishly. They [the Peripateticks] ineptly fansied … [the crystalline humour of the eye] to be the immediate organ of vision wherein all the species of external objects were terminated. Ray, Works of Creation, ii.

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  • She had drunk a quantity of champagne, and during the course of her song she had decided, ineptly, that everything was very, very sad—she was not only singing, she was weeping too. —  The Great Gatsby / by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • These two idiots would be absolutely hillarious if it were not for the fact that they are bumblingly, ineptly, incompentently, stupidly, and wastefully ruining this country! —  Latest Articles
  • Local security forces can handle a growing share of responsibility -- perhaps ineptly, as in Basra a few weeks ago or in Kabul last weekend, but that's their problem. —  The Jawa Report
  • But spending hundreds of billions of dollars of our taxes on bailing out companies guided into insolvency so that they can continue to blunder along ineptly is just plain ridiculous
  • The latest ineptly-handled situation involves a showdown between the BKV and the —  Pestiside.hu
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