Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Incompetence.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The character or condition of being incompetent; lack of competence; inability, whether physical, moral, or intellectual; disqualification; incapacity; inadequacy.
- noun In law, lack of qualification for the performance of a legal act, or to serve a legal purpose, as incapacity for acting in court as judge, juror, or witness, from personal interest, lack of jurisdiction, or other special or legal unfitness.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The condition of being
incompetent
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun lack of physical or intellectual ability or qualifications
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Examples
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No, I think Mr. Meyerson gets it right; incompetency is a description but not an explanation, and it is only compounded when people who should know better excuse it for partisan gain.
January 2006 2006
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The incompetency is first with the entire White House.
The blame game… the race card… the care card « BuzzMachine 2005
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If you continue to support the administration now, even after the cronyism, the lying, the flip-flopping, and the sheer and utter incompetency is so obvious to the rest of the world, then there’s little hope of you joining the reality-based community.
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Your incompetency is a pre-existing condition therefore you will be terminated.
Flannery O'Connor's Tea Party J. Bradley 2011
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If this is not what you may call incompetency, either you are high on something or by nature, delusional..
NY Daily News 2011
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Tenure is no more than a legal commitment (set by the state and negotiated union contracts) to procedural due process, ensuring notice and providing a hearing for generally accepted reasons for termination, such as incompetency, insubordination, and immorality.
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The Democratic Party said the government's "incompetency" meant the bill would not succeed.
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School boards can, under state law, remove teachers and administrators for "incompetency," which under the law includes "demonstrated deficiencies or shortcomings in knowledge of subject matter or teaching or administrative skills."
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The "incompetency" of criminal defendants to testify at their own trials was part of the common law of England and then the United States until the Nineteenth Century, during which incompetency gave way to the notion that the basis for disqualification - the defendant's
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The "incompetency" of criminal defendants to testify at their own trials was part of the common law of England and then the United States until the Nineteenth Century, during which incompetency gave way to the notion that the basis for disqualification - the defendant's
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