Crack
Crack adjective - Having or showing exceptional knowledge, experience, or skill in a field of endeavor.
Usage example: known as one of the college's crack tennis players
Unable
Unable adjective - Lacking qualities (as knowledge, skill, or ability) required to do a job.
Usage example: a celebrated author of serious plays, he turned out to be a particularly unable writer of comedies
Both words in one sentence
- Thanks to Kyle Katarn shooting a crack into the fighter's viewscreen, the enemy pilot is unable to see when the Crowpulls out of the canyon at a dead end.
Source: Wronski Feint -
By this movie, K is so stoic, he is unable to crack a joke or a smile up until the ending.
Source: Film / Men in Black 3 -
In the film for the DragonStrike game, when the rogue is unable to unlock a magically sealed door, the fighter makes a crack about it.
Source: Use Your Head
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