Word: ineptly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Police investigators--inept, or maybe even corrupt and racist--have failed to put Stephen's killers behind bars. Over the past five years, they have ignored leads and left evidence unexplored, in effect assisting in the much-disputed acquittal of three of the suspects and failure to prosecute the other two. Stephen's parents have attended every court session, sitting erectly and silently as witnesses relived the incident again and again...
...BURTON Lucky Clinton. Not since Robert E. Lee has a man been blessed with such a series of inept enemies...
Harvard's men's lacrosse team won an embarrassing victory Saturday, beating Yale by the unusually low score of 5-2 in New Haven. The Crimson's offense was listless, taking a cue from the inept Bulldogs who held the ball more than they tried to score...
...young Jewish healer for a traveling medicine show. Musa is worldliness made flesh, the sort of opportunist and schemer who if asked to swap his soul for profit would probably respond, "What's the catch?" By contrast, Crace's Messiah-in-training is a bit of a stick: an inept carpenter with a stuffy nose, a functional illiterate, the kind of cheerless guy who has to make camping out with snakes and scorpions even harder than it already is. On the other hand he has an iron will. Starved and dangerously dehydrated, he resists the tantalizing bribes of food...
...world has turned: the new movie version of Lolita is at this moment playing without any particular controversy in Moscow, former capital of hopelessly square Soviet socialist morality. After something like a year of relentless salesmanship, producers of Adrian Lyne's near reverent (but by no means inept or exploitative) adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's modernist classic has yet to find a theatrical distributor in the U.S., where, of course, morally ambivalent entanglements between older men and younger women have lately been hot news...