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Incompetent   /ɪnkˈɑmpətənt/   Listen
Incompetent

adjective
1.
Legally not qualified or sufficient.  Synonym: unqualified.  "Incompetent witnesses"
2.
Not qualified or suited for a purpose.  "The filming was hopeless incompetent"
3.
Showing lack of skill or aptitude.  Synonyms: bungling, clumsy, fumbling.  "Did a clumsy job" , "His fumbling attempt to put up a shelf"
4.
Not doing a good job.  Synonym: unskilled.
5.
Not meeting requirements.  Synonyms: incapable, unequal to.
noun
1.
Someone who is not competent to take effective action.  Synonym: incompetent person.



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"Incompetent" Quotes from Famous Books



... word is No to us all. There is some malformation or defect of the vocal organs, which either prevents our uttering it at all, or gives it so thick a pronunciation as to be unintelligible. A mouth filled with the national pudding, or watering in expectation thereof, is wholly incompetent to this refractory monosyllable. An abject and herpetic Public Opinion is the Pope, the Anti-Christ, for us to protest against e corde cordium. And by what College of Cardinals is this our God's-vicar, our binder and looser, elected? Very like, by ...
— The Biglow Papers • James Russell Lowell
... dangerous of all the errors of mankind. A false leader in religion may be more fatal than an incompetent general of an army, therefore ministers of the gospel and teachers have the greatest task imposed on them of any of God's creation. When once one's religion runs mad, barbarity assumes the support of conscience and feels its approval in the consummation ...
— The Witch of Salem - or Credulity Run Mad • John R. Musick
... fancy he would give him the pass-word ('the fiddler's paid,' or what not), as though the highway had not its code of morals; nor did he scruple, when it served his purpose, to rob the bunglers of his own profession. By this means, indeed, he raised the standard of the Road and warned the incompetent to embrace an easier trade. While he never took a shilling without sweetening his depredation with a joke, he was, like all humorists, an acute philosopher. 'Remember what I tell you,' he said to the foolish ...
— A Book of Scoundrels • Charles Whibley
... days of Clovis to the days of Charles Martel and Charlemagne the history of the Frankish realm, so far as its kingship is concerned, is almost a blank. It was an era of several centuries of incompetent and sluggish monarchs, of whom we can say little more than that they were born and died; they can scarcely be said to have reigned. But from the midst of this dull interregnum of Merovingian sluggards comes to us ...
— Historical Tales, Vol. 6 (of 15) - The Romance of Reality. French. • Charles Morris
... Incompetent men and hungry demagogues had clamored for high positions in the army. Their influence had been so great he had been forced to find berths for many ...
— The Victim - A romance of the Real Jefferson Davis • Thomas Dixon


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