noun
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A person who is incompetent.
adjective
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Unskilled; lacking the degree of ability that would normally be expected.
example
Having an incompetent lawyer may be grounds for a retrial, but the lawyer in question probably doesn't know that.
synonyms
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Unable to make rational decisions, insane or otherwise cognitively impaired.
example
The charged was judged incompetent to stand trial, at least until his medication started working.
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Of the cervix: opening too early in pregnancy, provoking the baby to be born.
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Not resistant to deformation or flow.
Examples of incompetent in a Sentence
The Parkside men in blue were nothing but a bunch of incompetent misfits who should all be fired, so continued the tirade.
Moylan, however, proved incompetent, and Mifflin resumed the office on the 1st of October.
But their kings were incompetent, their chiefs jealous and their tribes divided.
I have to say, the men seem to be incompetent buffoons.
The drug is contra-indicated in all cases where the heart is already beating too slowly; in aortic incompetence - where the prolongation of diastole increases the amount of the blood that regurgitates through the incompetent valve; in chronic Bright's disease and in fatty degeneration of the heart - since nothing can cause fat to become contractile.
Only, they turn out to be hopelessly incompetent at that task too.
In 1617 the sultan died, and was succeeded by his brother Mustafa; but the latter being declared incompetent to reign, his brother Osman took his place on the throne.
You don't want to create a first impression that you are carelessness or incompetent.
But the excessive caution of Jagiello gave the Knights time to recover from the blow; the Polish levies proved unruly and incompetent; Witowt was suddenly recalled to Lithuania by a Tatar invasion, and thus it came about that, when peace was concluded at Thorn, on the 1st of February 1411, Samogitia (which was to revert to the Order on the death of Jagiello and Witowt), Dobrzyn, and a war indemnity of 10o,000 marks payable in four instalments, were the best terms Poland could obtain from the Knights, whose territory practically remained intact.
As a ruler he was wholly incompetent.
I operated the camera and I guarantee that you'll not see a more technically incompetent film.
The discouraged intellect may feel itself utterly incompetent to make anything at all of such concepts.
Now once they know that this is the case they become consciously incompetent.
His fear of looking incompetent in front of neighbors should get him into action.
The big institutions that own the vast majority of the shares in Railtrack have been proven incompetent once again.
They seem so incompetent it is almost tempting to believe them!
A person cannot be deemed incompetent to consent to any transaction purely on the basis that they have an intellectual impairment.
This covers both physician assisted suicide and the situation of giving a lethal injection to an incompetent patient.
Unable to put together any sort of defense for an incompetent government, you are forced to invent an unworthy motive for my criticisms.
The accession of this prince was followed by an incursion of the Carmathians into Syria, before whom the Ikshidi governor fled into Egypt, where he had for a time to undertake the management of affairs, and arrested Ibn Furt, who had proved himself incompetent.
All this might not seem quite so disastrous if it were not by now well established that SNH is an exceptionally incompetent land manager.
If they are so incompetent at negotiating a speed hump; just how safe are they at high speeds?
They said the obvious things - the CSA continues to be the most administratively incompetent government agency in living memory.
The mother of the girl was told that she was denied an account because she was " mentally incompetent.
Vital Local Elections, essential to get the corrupt incompetent Lib-Dem Tories ousted from Lambeth.
It is a vicious spiral, which the current approach to health care is incompetent to solve.
In addition people saw millions squandered by an incompetent Government or the biggest white elephant ever the Dome.
For three years he was actively employed in removing from their parishes those ministers whom he regarded as incompetent.
An incompetent cervix, which opens too early in the pregnancy without any signs of labor.
It amounted to a confession of his faith that the established clerisy was incompetent, dangerous and innumerate.
The government remained in the hands of Cardinal Bakocz till his death in 1521, when the supreme authority at court was disputed between the lame palatine Istvan Bathory, and his rival, the eminent jurist and orator Istvan Verbdczy (q.v.), - both of them incompetent, unprincipled place-hunters, - while, in the background lurked Janos Zapolya (see John (Zapolya), King Of Hungary), voivode of Tran sylvania, patiently waiting till the death of the feeble and childless king (who, in 1522, married Maria of Austria) should open for him a way to the throne.
The two next viceroys were incompetent; further demands from the Spanish authorities in revolt against Joseph Bonaparte increased the disaffection, which was not allayed by the grant of representation in the Spanish Cortes to the colonies; and, on the demands being repeated by a third viceroy, Venegas, Creole conspiracies arose in Queretaro and Guanajato.
It remains in effect until it is revoked by the Principal, or until the Principal becomes mentally incompetent or dies.
Her incompetent editor abridges every chapter so ineffectively that the story practically disappears.
He's proven time and again that he will not be a pushover, in direct contrast to some of the incompetent and weak referees from the professional wrestling world.
Your attorney will make decisions for you if you become mentally incompetent due to illness or injury.
The person you appoint will make decisions about the type of medical treatment you will be given if you incompetent.
Neglect is often a result of a poor ratio of caregivers to patients or incompetent or poorly-trained staff.
Mothers who believe that they are effective parents are more competent than mothers who feel incompetent.
If they then generalize these socially incompetent behaviors to their peer interactions, peer rejection may result.
While most mortgage brokers are proficient professionals who truly want to assist potential homebuyers in finding the best mortgage deal, there are a few brokers who are either incompetent or unscrupulous.
The task was the more easy because Lancaster was at open discord with the men who had supplanted him, so that the baronial party was divided; while the mishaps of the last six years had convinced the nation that other rulers could be as incompetent and as unlucky as the king.
When the king chose Shelburne as prime minister, they refused to follow him, and put forward the incompetent duke of Portland as their candidate for the office.
Coming after a series of incompetent rulers, the German princess 11., proved herself a worthy successor to Peter the Great both in home and in foreign affairs; but she was not a mere imitator.
If it has the misfortune to be systematized by an enthusiastic but dull and incompetent disciple, it may appear even absurd.
George Rakoczy II., who succeeded his father in 1648, the Turkish empire, misruled by a series of incompetent sultans and distracted by internal dissensions, was unable to intervene in Hungarian politics.
The caliphs personal government appears to have been incompetent, and to have been marked by extortions and other arbitrary measures.
This person, proving incompetent, was deposed by a revolution of the Mamelukes on the 4th of December 1467, when the Atabeg Timurbogha was proclaimed with the title Malik al-Zahir, In a months time, however, there was another palace revolution, and the new Atabeg Kait Bey or Kaietbai (January 3tst, 1468) was proclaimed sultan, the dethroned Timurbogha being, however, permitted to go free whither he pleased.
The existing procedure was simplified and accelerated; the working of the courts was greatly improved by a carefully organized system of inspection and control; the incompetent judges were eliminated and replaced by men of better education and higher moral character; and for the future supply of wellqualified judges, barristers, and law officials, an excellent school of law was established.
Hitherto the mode of demonstration had been by the syllogism; but the syllogism is, in many respects, an incompetent weapon.