| 释义 |
ineptly, adv.|ɪˈnɛptlɪ|
[f. inept + -ly2.]
In an inept manner; unfitly, unsuitably; foolishly.
(The first example (which comes second-hand from Brian Twyne's transcript c 1620–24) may be an isolated occurrence after L. inepte, F. ineptement, 1380 in Godef.)
1523Hen. VIII Let. to Bayliffe of Oxford 18 Oct., Twyne MSS. XIII. 259 (cf. Turner Rec. Oxf. 42) All common welth there is ineptly permytted to fall into extreme ruyne and decay. 1611Cotgr., Ineptement, ineptly, vnaptly. 1612J. Cotta Disc. Dang. Pract. Phys. i. vii. 54 Ineptly and injuriously may the illusion of fancy..be made snares for the innocent. 1653H. More Antid. Ath. i. x. (1662) 31 Though it be done never so ineptly and foolishly. 1691Ray Creation ii. (1692) 22 The Crystalline Humor of the Eye which they [the Peripatetics] ineptly fansied to be the immediate Organ of Vision. 1886Traill Shaftesbury (1888) 89 A subtle note of ironical compassion, as of a rat who was leaving the sinking ship, for a rat who has ineptly selected the same moment for joining it. |