Sentence examples for Incompetent from inspiring English sources

The word 'incompetent' is a valid word in written English
It is an adjective that means a person lacks the necessary skills to do something successfully. For example, "The incompetent actor was unable to remember his lines."

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Incompetent

adjective

Unskilled, lacking normally expected degree of ability.

  • Having an incompetent lawyer may be grounds for a retrial, but the lawyer in question probably doesn't know that.

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It is difficult to identify errors or incompetent practitioners, and harder still to drum them out of the health service.

These plans are not just a cut; they are the cut, the one that will make entry to, and life in, the profession unsustainable for all but the incompetent and/or the privately wealthy.

Would a return visit lay the ghost of our incompetent honeymoon?

It has reminded us all of the value of naming and shaming – naming the girls to remind the world that they are human beings, and shaming terrorists, Nigeria's incompetent government, and the structural and institutional racism and misogyny that allowed an atrocity of this magnitude to go unnoticed two weeks and unresolved for over three.

The Nigerian president, Goodluck Jonathan, and his wife, Patience, would not have been exposed for the shallow and incompetent politicians that they are.

A prime example is Stan Valchek, the commander of the south-eastern district, who ends season five one of the few Wire winners despite being repeatedly exposed as vindictive, devious and incompetent.

The two main parties are mirror images of each other The Conservatives' enduring characteristics are "competent but uncaring" while Labour is "caring, but incompetent".

Surprise, surprise, I do not share Polly Toynbee's certainty that this is an incompetent, ideologically rigid one-term government; it ain't over yet and Labour – or a British Syriza or a New Dawn party – must also show that it is fit to govern for the coalition to be ousted in (or before) 2015.

Somebody ought to have reminded them that the bank failed because of greedy and incompetent free marketeers and that the disk was lost by the haulage company which made its name breaking through the Wapping picket line.

"This is another serious gaffe by an incompetent government".

"The problem was with the leadership and coordination of actions … What's going on now is the result of incompetent management of our troops, even though they're trying to cover this up with a propaganda storm".

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