Sentence examples for barely competent from inspiring English sources
To become barely competent could take me years.
Though the dress was magnificent, my lady love was barely competent.
The researcher played by Alison Pill is confused, terrified and barely competent.
Others, especially the mannered domestic scenes of his later career, are barely competent acts of voyeurism.
Actually, though, they are bumbling, hysterical narcissists, barely competent to manage ordinary human interactions with their temporary son.
More instructive is that only twice this season might it be posited that United played well: against Swansea, in the opening game – even that punctuated by moments rather than replete with cohesion – and against a Bayer Leverkusen team that barely competed, yet, with merely competent goalkeeping, might have sneaked a draw.
But when you see him at his best you might conclude that the real rip-off artists are those other barely-competent preachers.
Moving to the centre would only provide more red meat for Hanson and her band of barely-competent conspiracy theorists.
Instead, he seemed just competent.
