Word: inept
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...Half-Truths, who formulated the now-famous rule on " choosing a course assistant. " In Bunny's own words. " Make sure he is cruder, more reactionary, and basically less pleasant than even you are. Then give him a free hand. " It is also important that the assistant be totally inept as a lecturer ( ideally he should drool as well as lisp ), and that he cast a favorable light on your physical appearance. [ In the event that your academic credentials are likewise open to question be careful to pick an assistant with ones yet more questionable, say a quickie doctorate from...
From the first, it was clear that the true Met fan had to be a man of almost mystical forbearance, untrammeled optimism and infinite compassion for the inept. Born in 1962, when the National League expanded to ten clubs, the Mets promptly lost their first nine games. They finally won one on their tenth try, but defeat was more their style. Baseball, according to a hoary cliche, is a game of inches. The Mets lost by feet, even yards, and they did so with agonizing regularity. In their first seven seasons they threw away the awesome total of 737 games...
...Take the Money and Run, he portrays Virgil Starkwell, a man who would get flustered crossing the street, and imbues him with the delusion that he can master the split-second timing, minute detail and cool bravado needed to become a successful bank robber. Result: a criminal so consistently inept that he fails even to make the Ten Most Wanted list...
Even in the absence of official dishonesty, law enforcement has often proved inept. Most city and state police agencies are still not equipped to deal effectively with clever, well-financed conspiracies that extend across city and state lines. The FBI is better trained, of course, but its special agents hardly constitute a national police force, and were never intended to do so. Until...
...police, secret or otherwise, were keeping a wary eye on him. They were sure he was up to no good, but their problem was to catch him at it. For his part, the prince treated the police alternately with indifference and insouciance. Fortunately for the prince, they were mostly inept, often irritating, but sometimes diverting. There was one glorious day when he conned one of the Czar's gumshoes into carrying his luggage. The rules of the game were more urbane in those days...