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incompetent English

Meaning incompetent meaning

What does incompetent mean?
Definitions in simple English

incompetent

If you are incompetent you are not good at what you are doing. You might not know how to do it. You might not be able to do it. He is an incompetent driver, and cannot keep a car on the road. He died because of medicine from an incompetent doctor. If you are incompetent you are stupid or crazy. The incompetent fools ruined my whole day. In some countries if you are incompetent the law says you are not able to decide things. This means you are not allowed to do some things but do not do need to do other things. This is often because the incompetent person is insane (crazy). He was found incompetent to stand trial. The contract is no good because she was legally incompetent when she signed it.

incompetent

someone who is not competent to take effective action not doing a good job incompetent at chess not qualified or suited for a purpose an incompetent secret service the filming was hopeless incompetent (= unqualified) legally not qualified or sufficient a wife is usually considered unqualified to testify against her husband incompetent witnesses (= unequal to) not meeting requirements unequal to the demands put upon him (= bungling, clumsy, fumbling) showing lack of skill or aptitude a bungling workman did a clumsy job his fumbling attempt to put up a shelf

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Simple sentences

The world is full of incompetent doctors.
Tom is incompetent.
This man is incompetent.
He is incompetent.
She is incompetent.
She's completely incompetent.
I'm not incompetent.
Are you lazy or just incompetent?
He was fired for being an incompetent worker.
Tom's incompetent.
You were incompetent.
Tom is incompetent, isn't he?
You're incompetent.
Tom seems incompetent.
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

Movie subtitles

And could you possibly be more incompetent?
Incompetent man!
If Cyrus hadn't been utterly incompetent, I'd have been the first heir.
This morning they read that an incompetent clown had arrived, parading like a member of the Senate.
Of all the incompetent.
He's incompetent, he's no good at his job and I cannot stand the sight of him!
It is designed by one Howard Roark, an incompetent amateur who has the arrogance to hold his own ideas above all rules.
In every family, statistically there's a black sheep, an incompetent, like Eugen, a nice person like Paul and someone competent.
Magic and that incompetent you sent me who calls himself a detective.
Now get a doctor here, you incompetent clown!
I thought he was incompetent and unfair.
Then do you mean that the chiefs of staff of the army and navy. are not only treasonable and incompetent. but are lacking in foresight as well?
Are you ready. to give unquestioned obedience to your superiors, even though you may consider their conduct negligent and incompetent?
In view, then, of your present opinion. that your superiors are negligent and incompetent, could you give them unquestioned obedience. should you be returned to duty?
It's merely some kind of joke or the work of a mental incompetent.
I'm surrounded by incompetent, stupid, sterile stenographers.
Are you listening you little body of incompetent men known as the Inner Council?
Because my wife is incompetent for this job and you're not.
He can own the sanatorium and I'll be out before you can say stupid, incompetent and inefficient!
This from an incompetent man. You bastard!
Could you have been so incompetent, bungled so horribly as to have permitted that child to live?
Then why stand you here, you incompetent jackanapes?
That you're incompetent.
Incompetent?
If people's votes puts an incompetent into office it is time to withdraw the vote.
I've already written to the State Asylum for the Mentally Incompetent.
I didn't know you were incompetent.
Frankly, you are an incompetent thief.
The courtiers are incompetent!
But didn't you say that he was incompetent and couldn't do his job properly?
Are you aware that sexual sterilisation was not invented by National Socialism, but had been advanced for years before as a weapon in dealing with the mentally incompetent and the criminal?
The King has no love for the uncertain or incompetent!
Mentally incompetent, like animals after a long famine.
So, you think I'm an incompetent old fool do you?
The stormtroopers already spread terror before the indifferent eyes of the incompetent authorities.
Incompetent fools.

News and current affairs

When international finance economists sketch this scenario, domestically oriented macroeconomists respond that it sounds like a case of incompetent monetary policy.
Even so, America remains by far the world's most powerful country; its decline has more to do with its incompetent use of power than with the emergence of competitors.
An incompetent president of the Commission has had his term renewed for another five years as a reward for his innocuousness.
The unpopularity of Hong Kong's incompetent and sycophantic Chief Executive, chosen by China for a second five-year term that will only end in 2007, creates a grave dilemma for the country's communist rulers.
If so, then here's further proof that only peaceful and stable countries can afford the luxury of incompetent decision-makers.
So Japan's choice comes down to one between a distrusted LDP and an incompetent DPJ.
Serbs consider him incompetent and responsible for their defeats of the 1990s, not least for making Serbia the country with largest refugee population in Europe - around 700,000.
How credible will an anti-corruption message be when delivered by an appointee of what is considered one of the most corrupt and incompetent administrations in US history?
The rise of incompetent states brings about huge challenges: proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, terrorism, religious and ethnic strife, rivalry for natural resources, waves of migration, drug trafficking, and deterioration of the environment.
The politically correct policy of affirming each nation's right to self-determination, including the establishment of an independent state, leads to the emergence of more incompetent regimes.
Indeed, incompetent states now comprise almost a majority in the UN, which undermines that body's moral legitimacy in the eyes of many in the developed world.
The new role the US envisages is closely tied to the profound destabilization brought about by the proliferation of incompetent states.
At times, the rules of the game are transparent and still the established and incompetent triumph.
But liberal ideology does not demand an incompetent and weak state.
Afghanistan's often corrupt and incompetent government undermines counter-insurgency efforts there.
Incompetent leaders blame legislatures for their failures; legislators blame presidents from rival parties.
They might use the first ballot to express their anger at the government and discontent with the system, but they know that the FN is made up of incompetent extremists.
He gave power to Shehu Shagari, the presidential candidate of the National Party of Nigeria, who was widely viewed as incompetent and yoked to feudal interests in Nigeria's Muslim north.
But Russia's latest energy windfall has masked Putin's incompetent economic management, with growth and government revenues now entirely reliant on the hydrocarbons sector.
American reluctance to abandon Musharraf - together with prolonged electricity shortages, which made the new government appear incompetent - also raised his hopes.
Putin's new cabinet is a similar reshuffling of the incompetent with the unqualified.
In August, thousands of refugees became stranded at Budapest's Keleti train station for days on end when Hungary's vexed and incompetent government deliberately allowed the situation to escalate.

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