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US
/ˌɪnˈkɑmpətəns/
]
[ UK /ɪnkˈɒmpɪtəns/ ]
[ UK /ɪnkˈɒmpɪtəns/ ]
NOUN
- inability of a part or organ to function properly
- lack of physical or intellectual ability or qualifications
How To Use incompetence In A Sentence
- Bounties were paid right across a banking sector whose incompetence threw thousands of innocents into jeopardy. Times, Sunday Times
- This is not by any means the only instance of financial incompetence on the part of our various Scottish ancestors, nor indeed of the tendency to resort to violence, and those patterns offer surprisingly little reassurance from the genetic standpoint. Archive 2009-03-01
- ‘I only wish farmers could be fully compensated for the incompetence, inefficiency and neglect of the Department over which Mrs Beckett presides,’ he said.
- How would this family prove it was the insurance company's incompetence that led to the lapsed life policy and thus claim the assured amount?
- How was he to know that political incompetence was the key qualification for the job? Times, Sunday Times
- But army hard-liners, led by Mr. Ioannidis, staged a successful countercoup on Nov. 25, 1973, and ruled Greece with increasing harshness and incompetence for the next eight months. Dimitrios Ioannidis, 87, dies; former Greece security chief led countercoup
- His session description very clearly demonstrates both incompetence and unethical behavior . . . regardless of Jackson's guilt or innocence which is an entirely different matter, albeit I tend not to buy the whole pure as undriven snow the Jackson sycophants are pushing. Uri Geller's Report . . .. . . on the Hypnosis Session he did with Michael Jackson . . .. . . bad trance management
- If only she would just trundle around in her old caravan rather than inflict her incompetence on the rest of us. The Sun
- She claimed that the rise in unemployment was just a further manifestation of the government's incompetence.
- In the article, she notes several cases of medical incompetence.