ineptly
i nept lee
- r  with ineptitude; in an incompetent manner
                    
                        
                            
he performed his functions ineptly - r  in an infelicitous manner
                    
                        
                            
this function is ineptly left to a small voice 
- Beginning with a hopeless burlesque of Gertrude Stein's Four Saints in Three Acts, the show proceeds through a series of wooden dance numbers, ineptly written skits, patently .
 - And in a briefly scary preamble to the week--one in which no one was hurt--New Yorkers jumped and then rolled their eyes as a criminal fool set off an ineptly built pipe bomb on a .
 - It was meant to mock an ineptly written federal stimulus bill.