Sentence examples for barely competent to from inspiring English sources

Actually, though, they are bumbling, hysterical narcissists, barely competent to manage ordinary human interactions with their temporary son.

Her mother was barely competent and Andy had to parent herself at a young age.

This is especially true with regard to the highly varied performances, which range from excellent to just barely competent, a common situation in Australian TV.

"Playing this is like listening to a roomful of barely competent musicians, each of whom is playing a completely different song.

Her endlessly debated work was derided by some, who thought her nothing more than a careerist and a barely competent child of privilege who traded on her sexuality and connections to jump to the head of the line.

The country that the United States will leave behind, Mr. Cordesman said, will continue to be plagued by official corruption, barely competent military and police forces and a stubborn Taliban insurgency.

9 P.M. (Starz) 21 JUMP STREET (2012) In this comedy, directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller and based on the late-1980s cop show on Fox that made Johnny Depp a star, Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum (below left, with Mr. Hill) play barely competent police officers who go undercover as high school students to sniff out the source of a superdrug.

The exhibition, say its curators, will explode the myth that Lowry – who, in 1939, turned down an offer to become the Manchester Guardian's art critic – was a primitive, barely competent painter.

The brisk first section recalls Kingsley Amis's "Lucky Jim" — a novel about a barely competent young academic who has a bad attitude and two women (one plain and one fancy) to juggle.

"Barely competent".

Though the dress was magnificent, my lady love was barely competent.