Lexicographical Neighbors of Ineptest
Literary usage of Ineptest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Monthly Review by Henry Newbolt, Charles Hanbury-Williams (1901)
"But they jostle with passages of the ineptest criticism ; for this seer into
mysteries was constitutionally incapable of applying the principles he ..."
2. Russia from Within by Alexander Ular (1905)
"... horror of the illiterate and infinitely credulous populace still further by
loading them with the ineptest calumnies (ritual murders, blood-drinking, ..."
3. Repetition in Latin Poetry: With Special Reference to the Metrical Treatment by Hubert McNeill Poteat (1912)
"... fautor ineptest"... Juvenal 8.147, 151 (only a slight variation, for metrical
expediency) : carpento rapitur pinguis ..."
4. The Crowd in Peace and War by William Martin Conway (1915)
"We met once and once only, and that meeting was the ineptest I have ever attended,
To take counsel with sixty is not possible. Half a dozen talked at once. ..."
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