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View synonyms for incompetence

incompetence

[ in-kom-pi-tuhns ]

noun

  1. the quality or condition of being incompetent; lack of ability.
  2. Law. the condition of lacking power to act with legal effectiveness.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of incompetence1

First recorded in 1655–65; from French incompétence (equivalent to in- negative prefix + compétence); variant of earlier incompetency; incompetent; -cy, -ence, -ency
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Example Sentences

Montgomery is mentally deteriorating and we are seeking an opportunity to prove her incompetence.

A 2019 series by The Post and Courier and ProPublica exposed how a flawed system of selection and oversight provided fertile ground for incompetence and corruption on the bench.

I realize state unemployment agencies have been given a tall task, but that’s no excuse for the level of incompetence and unresponsiveness they’ve demonstrated in delivering congressionally approved unemployment benefits.

The reasons included not only incompetence but corruption too.

From Fortune

The men are still able to plead incompetence, if nothing else.

And their suspicions make them see betrayal at every turn, even when incompetence may be the cause of a particular problem.

And they suggest something worse than incompetence is at work there.

And a successful two-term Governor of a state where the balloting incompetence and idiocy is absolutely vital to the GOP.

That and incompetence at the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital may have caused the deadly disease to spread.

Watching this incompetence is infuriating, and the view security cameras show from inside the mall is horrific.

Inexhaustibly kind to undeserved misfortune, a little impatient of mere incompetence, implacable to continuous idiocy.

It was chiefly a question of incompetence, no doubt, but there was no consolation in admitting that.

One was the incompetence of the Irish people for local government.

But when a layman ventures to plunge deeply into legal subjects, he is naturally apt to make an exhibition of his incompetence.

Many of these losses were due to the utter incompetence of the higher command.

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