Word: inept
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...also have an agreeably low budget and their project has a serviceable plot device - three nerds, fiendishly set upon by a high school bully, hire a bodyguard to protect them. He turns out to be not the special forces vet he claims to be, but a homeless man - physically inept and cowardly to boot. The only thing Drillbit Taylor neglects is to make any sort of comic capital out of a basic situation that a lot of people - not all of them currently afflicted by acne - have endured in life. Mostly the kids (Troy Gentile, Nate Hartley and David Dorfman...
...white 1948 film detailing a police investigation into a model's murder. (Famous last lines: "There are 8 million stories in the Naked City. This has been one of them.") Set on the piers and streets of New York City, the movie broke with depictions of cops as inept bumblers--and private eyes as heroic crime solvers--and set the stage for the now teeming genre of gritty police dramas. Wald, who was nominated for an Oscar for the film...
...dictator, as your columnist and some other people believe, then he is making history because Mr. Musharraf has not only voluntarily held, on Feb. 18, the fairest election in Pakistan’s 60-year modern history, but has also made life difficult for Pakistan’s famously inept and incompetent politicians by licensing and unleashing more than 80 independent television news networks across the country...
Describe yourself in three words: social(ly inept) butterfly {or “inept social butterfly?...
...states that the Council should “recommend and/or appoint” the five students belonging to Dowling II, stands in firm contradiction of the idea of impartial review. No institution should be able to pick its own review board, and any institution that does so risks looking inept at best and corrupt at worst. The UC should be no exception. If the administration allows the UC to choose its own reviewers, then Dowling II will be hijacked by the UC’s personal interest and will no longer be able to legitimately claim that it represents...