Word: ineptly
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...first glance it appeared that the President was making a low bow to RFC's critics. There was no doubt that RFC's management had been sadly inept under Chairman Hise. And his vague explanations about some of RFC's multi-million-dollar loans during his regime had satisfied practically nobody...
...Vigorous, broad-grinned Mike Monroney, 48, a Congressman for twelve years, retired Oklahoma's inept old (73) Elmer Thomas from the Senate in a runoff campaign for the Democratic senatorial nomination (TIME, July 17), seemed likely to win in November. His Republican opponent: the Rev. W. H. (Bill) Alexander, a 35-year-old Oklahoma City minister...
With such kid-glove finesse, Bucky had a bunch of bushers looking like ballplayers, had them believing they were not as inept as past performance (in the cellar, 47 games out of first place last year) would indicate. At week's end Washington had won 19 of its first 39 games, and was in fifth place...
...through to the day (which won't be very cheerful when it comes) when you are retired Emeritus. All your lives, you will be teetering on that wire. You will never be quite sure whether you are uttering words of inspired . . . aptness, or whether you are being completely inept. Often you will find yourself incompetent enough to be fired at once if anybody was intelligent enough to see you as you are. You will find yourself, during your lectures, in your private conferences, quite constantly starting sentences without the faintest idea of where they are going...
...Peacock proved the more surprising debacle. Anouilh's indictment of Love began as frivolously as Molnar and wound up as savagely as Strindberg. With notable help from the production, the play messed up every mood it attempted, and, despite brief glimpses of something better, proved dated, hollow, inept. Bitterly portraying how Love tricks the innocent, mocks the decadent, dooms the misshapen, tortures the mad, Cry was almost literally a cry; the author seemed too enraged for clear speech...