The phrase "already incompetent" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone or something that is deemed incapable or ineffective at a particular task or role, often implying that this incompetence has been recognized prior to the current moment.
Example: "Despite his years of experience, he was already incompetent in handling the new software system."
Alternatives: "previously ineffective" or "already unqualified".
"It's not right to use figures in state institutions who were already proved incompetent or corrupt before the revolution".
Remediation limited to the identification and support of those already demonstrating incompetent skills, or dangerous attitudes may be attractive by limiting the numbers generated.
He added that a court in his home province, Vizcaya in the Basque country, has already declared him incompetent and transferred control of his finances to his wife.
Mr. Helder has already been declared incompetent to stand trial on charges that he planted pipe bombs and anti-government notes in mailboxes in Iowa, Illinois, Nebraska, Colorado and Texas in May 2002.
By the time the Russian army reached Schwyz, preparing to descend from the mountains into the Zürich plain, Masséna's army already had crushed the incompetent Korsakov's force at Zürich, and, in Hotze's absence, Jean-de-Dieu Soult's French division overwhelmed the Austrian flank at Schänis and crossed the Linth unhindered.
As Illinois examines what went wrong with a justice system that sent 13 innocent men to death row, one common thread has already emerged: poorly financed, often incompetent defense lawyers who failed to uncover and present crucial evidence.
"They would have probably occurred in one way or another as these weak, repressive and incompetent Arab governments were already there.
Such a situation, one diplomat said, would be "uncharted territory" that could further diminish the credibility of a government already seen as weak, corrupt and incompetent.
He returned to Germany, but his Swiss lawyers had already moved to have him declared incompetent and to take control of his affairs.
