Clues for the word "INEPT"
We've had 155 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 613 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Mindfood Daily crossword on April 13, 2025.
Definition of inept
- a. - Not apt or fit; unfit; unsuitable; improper; unbecoming.
- a. - Silly; useless; nonsensical; absurd; foolish.
Referring Clues
- Bumbling
- Lacking the knack
- Bungling
- All thumbs
- Oafish
- Clueless
- Klutzy
- Handling badly
- Like a sad sack
- Ham-fisted
- Like a stumblebum
- Fumble-fingered
- Feckless
- Like the Keystone Kops
- Like a butterfingers
- Not up to the task
- Unable to do the job competently
- Clumsy as an ox
- Clumsy
- Unable to get the job done
- Prone to bungling
- Awkward
- Like a schlimazel
- Lacking skill
- Muddleheaded
- Unhandy
- Hardly handy
- Hapless
- Likely to bumble
- Not at all 57 Down
- Not competent
- Not at all skillful
- Like Inspector Clouseau
- Ham-handed
- Not very competent
- Incompetent
- Not at all handy
- Liable to bungle
- Useless
- Maladroit
- Less than competent
- Lacking required skills
- Not capable
- Likely to err
- Not skillful
- Hardly sure-handed
- Totally helpless
- Displaying no dexterity
- Likely to fumble
- Like a lummox
- Tending to bungle things
- Not able
- Uncoordinated
- Lumbering
- Graceless
- Foolish
- Like Wile E. Coyote
- Bungle-prone
- Unskilful
- Not up to it
- Not very talented
- Unskillful
- Skill-less
- Prone to goof-ups
- Blundering
- Very awkward
- Like klutzes
- Like Homer Simpson or Herman Munster
- Far from proficient
- Prone to goofs
- Not graceful
- Lacking dexterity
- Bad at one's job
- With no skill
- Accident-prone
- Butterfingered
- Clumsy, incompetent
- Like guitarist who's all thumbs
- Unsuitable
- Lacking any competence
- Hopelessly incapable
- It's useless putting catmint in it
- Write about city centre without bungling
- The clumsy article about prison is returned
- Getting the enclosure back into it is awkward
- In spilling a pint, one's sweetheart is pretty useless!
- No good at all in the point-to-point
- Clumsy - silly
- It's pointless to tip half the peas into a new tin
- Expected to fail in record time
- It's useless and absurd to be only partly penitent
- Hopeless
- I find the majority of the planet silly
- I'm awkward - and in record time
- Incompetent in English and games
- Fatuous reflection in Lent penitential season
- Silly
- Foolish writer retired in Italy
- Foolish one - majority of planet
- Useless writer turns up in it
- Like Charlie Brown
- Like the Pointy-Haired Boss in "Dilbert"
- Likely to botch the job
- Clumsy enough to spill a pint around closing time
- Awkward number not starting exercises
- Amateurish
- Incompetent at home with ill-treated pet
- Hopeless; bungling
- Unsuitable, it's holding writer up
- Incompetent writer rejected in it
- It holds writer back being cack-handed
- Home movie's last part lacking skill
- Popular point about English being awkward
- Clumsy point supporting penalty without force
- Clumsy bird of 17 is put back in it
- It's useless to pine foolishly for a perfect ending
- All thumbs, so to speak
- Without any skill
- Clumsy in disturbing a pet
- Totally unskilled
- Untalented
- Incapable
- Maladroit in noting a small point
- Useless patient not at treatment
- Liable to foul up
- It's awkward, swimming in the Serpentine!
- Not competent at all
- It's no good spilling a pint around closing time
- Far from skillful
- Far from handy
- Being so stupid can make you most penitent
- Fumbling
- Not at all competent
- Far from competent
- About due to finish, to spill a pint is useless
- Unskilled, incompetent
- Coop up in it, which is foolish
- Unsuitable use of some turpentine
- Prone to bumbling
- Having no skill
- Harsh word in a performance review
- Unskilled treatment of some pine trees
- Unskilled
- Being clumsy, it holds a pen awkwardly
- Liable to screw up
- To get some wine by the pint seems unsuitable
- Not at all proficient
- Not proficient
- To keep a broken pen in it, is absurd
- Like a schlemiel
- Utterly unskilled
- Unfit yet it goes around the pen
- Unqualified
- Far from skilled
- Incompetent record in tin production
Last Seen In
- Mindfood Daily - April 13, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - April 11, 2025
- Mirror Daily - April 09, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - March 25, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - March 21, 2025
- Daily Quick - March 14, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - February 18, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - February 09, 2025
- LA Times - February 08, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - January 15, 2025
- Mirror Daily - January 05, 2025
- USA Today - December 18, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - December 11, 2024
- USA Today - December 04, 2024
- Mirror Daily - November 28, 2024
- USA Today - November 17, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - November 07, 2024
- Your Life Choices - October 27, 2024
- New York Times - October 21, 2024
- Daily American - October 17, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - October 15, 2024
- LA Times - October 10, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - October 08, 2024
- Your Life Choices - September 27, 2024
- Daily Quick - September 27, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - September 25, 2024
- New York Times - September 24, 2024
- Mirror Daily - September 22, 2024
- Daily American - September 18, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - September 11, 2024
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