What's the difference between ineptly and inertly?

Ineptly


Definition:

  • (adv.) Unfitly; unsuitably; awkwardly.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Plibersek’s spokesman said on Friday: “Who is Mr Brandis to dictate the language on the Middle East peace negotiations?” The spokesman said the intervention this week amounted to “another foreign policy embarrassment for the Abbott government, which is why [Brandis] was forced by the foreign minister and the Foreign Affairs Department to rush out a statement about his inept pronouncements.” Labor ran into its own controversy earlier this year when Bill Shorten appeared to telegraph a shift in policy around the description of settlements in a major speech to the Zionist Federation of Australia.
  • (2) Ever since the ex-PD leader Walter Veltroni started praising President Kennedy as a way to jettison communism, this has been an abiding theme, manifesting itself institutionally in the desperate attempt to engineer a US-style two-party system through breathtakingly inept electoral reforms – the latest one, the " Porcellum " (after porcello, swine), was behind the impasse earlier this year.
  • (3) The head seems to float uncomfortably above the collar, while the doublet is ineptly managed.
  • (4) Its structure was elucidated by IR, UV, FAB-MS, and various NMR spectra (including NOE, BBD, INEPT, SR, COSY, NOESY etc.
  • (5) Their barking drew an entertaining rebuke from Ta-Nehisi Coates to which we cannot resist linking, however: Carlson's descent from reasonably credible magazine journalist to inept race hustler is well mapped territory.
  • (6) I have to say that arranging your move so that you actually become homeless for a month is pretty much the definition of inept.
  • (7) The structures of the loureirins 1-4 were elucidated through interpretation of their spectroscopic data, with particular use being made of the selective INEPT nmr technique.
  • (8) As an inexperienced and diplomatically inept minister in the early 1970s, Thatcher clashed with what was later called "the education establishment".
  • (9) The government has handled the "£9,000 student fees" affair ineptly, near paralysed by political correctness.
  • (10) "Mr Hester's job at RBS in the last three years has not been made any easier by the incompetence of EU politicians, whose inept and moribund approach to the sovereign debt crisis has trashed the banking sector's value.
  • (11) spectrum were given for these dolichols by using model compounds and INEPT (insensitive nuclei enhanced by polarization transfer) measurement.
  • (12) The basic principles applied are the VOSY pulse scheme for volume selection and the INEPT sequence for homonuclear polarization transfer from the CH to the CH3 groups.
  • (13) "The crumbling of key pillars of Israel's security … coupled with the most diplomatically inept and strategically incompetent government in Israel's history have put Israel in a very dangerous situation," declared New York Times columnist Tom Friedman last month.
  • (14) So could I counter with a 'tactically inept' regarding England?
  • (15) But their attempts are suspiciously theatrical and inept – with the "demonstrators" at one point advancing in a hopeless Roman-style assault.
  • (16) Congress granted qualified immunity from liability for peer review participation to physicians, osteopaths and dentists, created a national practitioner data bank to track inept, incompetent or unprofessional physicians, and enacted procedural rules for due process, privilege restrictions, and reporting and disbursement of information.
  • (17) The INEPT (insensitive nucleus enhancement by polarization transfer) experiment [Morris, G. A., & Freeman, R. (1979) J.
  • (18) If you think Isis arose from the US invasion of Iraq, not the vacuum created by its inept occupation and premature withdrawal, good luck again.
  • (19) Friedman and Schwartz made a convincing case that it was inept monetary management by the Federal Reserve Bank that was the main culprit.
  • (20) The present Queen’s legacy may look very different once the future of the monarchy is in the inept hands of her eldest son.

Inertly


Definition:

  • (adv.) Without activity; sluggishly.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In a control study an inert stereoisomer, d-propranolol, did not block the ocular dominance shift.
  • (2) Gastric reservoir reduction, wrapping the stomach with an inert fabric, is one such procedure.
  • (3) Utilization of inert materials like teflon, makrolon, and stainless steel warrants experimental and possibly clinical application of the developed small constrictor.
  • (4) The results obtained indicate that the rate of cellular uptake and accumulation of the inert aminoacid increase with time as the fraction of oxygen is reduced.
  • (5) To estimate model parameters (load and tube compliances, tube inertances, characteristic impedances, and peripheral resistances) we measured ascending aortic pressure and flow in a group of five open-chest, anesthetized dogs.
  • (6) Such an 'inert tube' model may be adequate to describe the inhalation and exhalation kinetics of inert vapours, for example non-polar solvents which have a low water solubility.
  • (7) A large decrease in the number of macrophages showing EAC receptors was found after treatment of the cells with BCG, but not "inert" particles such as latex and zymosan.
  • (8) These data, indicative of a relative inertness of physiological functions of nervous pointer dogs compared with normal pointers, are consistent with the behavioral and some of the biochemical findings previously reported.
  • (9) From the original concept of encapsulating hemoglobin in an inert shell, LEH has evolved into a fluid proven to carry oxygen, capable of surviving for reasonable periods in the circulation, and amenable to large-scale production.
  • (10) The effects of helium and argon, inert gases, on oxygen consumption have been studied on liver tissue of white rats who were delivered different fatty products plus to basic food).
  • (11) Model predictions based upon these data compare favorably with published reports of isobaric inert gas supersaturation, as well as several previously unpublished observations.
  • (12) We concluded that the inert soluble gas method is capable of measuring in vivo the perfusion and a water compartment of the intact tracheal mucosa.
  • (13) A non-significant reduced risk of cervical cancer was associated with copper IUD use, indicated by an adjusted odds ratio (OR) of 0.6 (95% Cl: 0.3-1.2), but virtually no effect was found for inert IUD use (OR = 1.1, 95% Cl: 0.9-1.7).
  • (14) Within double-stranded DNA, it is kinetically inert in 1 M NaClO4 and becomes labile as the salt concentration is decreased.
  • (15) The glycohistochemical probes used consisted of conjugates of a labeled, histochemically inert carrier protein and various covalently linked, histochemically crucial sugar moieties.
  • (16) Tumour uptake of the inert, neutral complex 67Ga-9N3 and the tumour:blood concentration ratio (1,4,7,triazacyclononane-1,4,7, triacetic acid) were measured in mice bearing xenografts of the human melanotic melanoma HX118.
  • (17) Characteristics of cutaneous gas exchange in amphibians were studied by analysis of the equilibration kinetics of an inert test gas in salamanders which have neither lungs nor gills.
  • (18) Discoidal substrates for purified human lecithin-cholesterol acyltransferase were prepared with human apolipoprotein A-I, cholesterol, and egg phosphatidylcholine (PC) or dipalmitoyl PC, including dihexadecyl PC in various proportions as an enzymatically inert dilutor of the interfacial PC substrate.
  • (19) For many years, the dental profession worked mainly with rather inert restorative materials that had a limited contact with vital tissue, and the opportunity for local and systemic complications was minimal.
  • (20) The results support the hypothesis that mild steel welding and to a lesser extent stainless steel welding with tungsten inert gas is associated with reduced semen quality at exposure in the range of the Danish process specific threshold limit values of welding.

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