Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an incompetent manner; insufficiently; inadequately.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In an competent manner; inadequately; unsuitably.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In an
incompetent manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in an incompetent manner
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Examples
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In other instances, such as incompetently conducted elections and utility companies that rape us blind, give us inadequate service or out and out kill people, we smile and say, "Thank you sir, may I have another?"
American Utility Companies - Everything that is wrong with Corporatism 2006
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It was never done, because once deRugy, got a number she liked she did not complete the analysis, when she either incompetently missed or deliberately ignored the largest correlation, by far, present in the data.
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The deep-bore tunnel is atrocious engineering, so incompetently designed, corruption cannot be ruled out.
McGinn Says He’ll Veto Tunnel Agreement; Council President Says Mayor is “Grandstanding” « PubliCola 2010
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For instance, the Washington Post story cites reports from some principals that some of the teachers were habitually absent or behaved inappropriately and/or incompetently, by using foul language with students or frequently showing movies in class presumably without some sort of instructional purpose.
Sabrina Stevens Shupe: Just Cause, or "Just 'Cause"? Sabrina Stevens Shupe 2011
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Remember a few years ago when a Supreme Court Justice (Bureger?) died and the press made a big deal out of his having such a simple will, and implied that his estate was incompetently arranged?
The Volokh Conspiracy » “No Case Citations in Florida Health Care Lawsuit” 2010
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I am not afraid of them or it except to the degree to which they act incompetently, corruptly, illegally and so on.
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Best of all, perhaps, is the evil villain, an incompetently murderous chancellor played with hilarious relish by Little Britain's Matt Lucas.
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Remember a few years ago when a Supreme Court Justice (Bureger?) died and the press made a big deal out of his having such a simple will, and implied that his estate was incompetently arranged?
The Volokh Conspiracy » “No Case Citations in Florida Health Care Lawsuit” 2010
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In fact, many mom-and-pop operations were inefficiently and incompetently run.
How a Grocer Bagged Profits Patrick Cooke 2011
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Remember a few years ago when a Supreme Court Justice (Bureger?) died and the press made a big deal out of his having such a simple will, and implied that his estate was incompetently arranged?
The Volokh Conspiracy » “No Case Citations in Florida Health Care Lawsuit” 2010
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