Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Not expert; unskilled.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not expert; not skilled; not having knowledge or dexterity derived from practice.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Destitute of experience or of much experience.
- adjective Not expert; not skilled; destitute of knowledge or dexterity derived from practice.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Inept orunskilled ; not ofexpert ability orquality .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective lacking professional skill or expertise
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Examples
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Politicized and inexpert courts should defer to the patent professionals.
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Now, in addition to getting rid of super-heavy bottles (duh, the shipping costs alone for such pretentiousness), we will soon see a massive shift away from the “new French oak” religion, no because inexpert use of oak screws up the wine, but because new oak costs too bloody much.
Tony Soter sheds some weight [carbon footprint] | Dr Vino's wine blog 2010
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Tributes were paid to the octogenarian's 50 years in the commentary box, rightly so in my admittedly inexpert opinion.
Peter Alliss: the pork pie of golf commentators | Martin Kelner 2011
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Doug Jacobson – the RIAAâs inexpert expert – Audio Magic?
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I find this argument weak since we have no evidence that inexpert celebrity claims are resulting in a close consideration of what is truly wrong with our schools and what should be pursued to create the world-class schools we claim we want.
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They were as inexpert at their work as so many monkeys.
A SON OF THE SUN 2010
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She says her group often hears complaints from customers because of the "rising number of very, very inexpert people" trying to run community-supported agriculture operations CSAs, which sell memberships in return for a supply of produce.
Tractor, Laptop: Family Farm Tools Sue Shellenbarger 2011
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His report has just been filed and neither MediaSentry nor Jacobson, the RIAA ` s inexpert expert, already seriously embarrassed by Dutch P2P expert Johan Pouwelse, survive.
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Seismology experts are not pleased by the inexpert analysis.
Iran's Shiite clerics predict deadly quake as punishment from God 2010
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They just sit and the sidelines and witter on, offering inexpert opinions and witless criticisms.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2010
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