Adverb

(en adverb)

In an inartful manner.

* {{quote-news, year=2008, date=April 17, author=Gail Collins, title=Battle of the Baggage, work=New York Times citation

, passage=Finally, he got a chance to remind her of the time back in 1992 when she dissed the homemakers of America by saying, rather inartfully , that she preferred legal work to baking and serving tea. }}