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[in-kom-pi-tuhns]

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noun

the quality or condition of being incompetent; lack of ability.

Law. the condition of lacking power to act with legal effectiveness.

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Also, in·com·pe·ten·cy.

Origin:
1655–65; variant (with -ence for -ency) of earlier incompetency. See incompetent, -cy

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Example Sentences

Stein criticized hospitals and doctors for failing to report doctors suspected of incompetence or malpractice.

Don't attribute anything to malevolence that can be explained by simple incompetence.

The administration's difficulties with various nominees have created an unfortunate impression of incompetence.

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Stein criticized hospitals and doctors for failing to report doctors suspected of incompetence or malpractice.

Don't attribute anything to malevolence that can be explained by simple incompetence.

The administration's difficulties with various nominees have created an unfortunate impression of incompetence.

Incompetence isn't too hard to ignore, you figure it could be a new employee still learning the ropes.

The refinery itself was undamaged, though it's unclear if that's by design or incompetence.

The notion of suing for other kinds of professional incompetence soon followed.

It has turned into a hot-bed of race-fighting, white-guilt pandering and in-your-face incompetence.

Incompetence is so endemic that several countries have invented phrases to deal with it.

What international mechanism do you propose to prevent corruption and incompetence from occurring again and again.

Lesser spies would have retreated from the public eye after their own incompetence blew their cover.

The system with many outstanding faculty suffers from administrative bloat, incompetence and not a little viciousness.

Incompetence in civilian life, in commerce or in the professions, can have serious consequences.

In the end, the only stability their resulting incompetence could afford them was government employment.

He was investigated by his university, which found no evidence of incompetence or fraud.

Quirkiness is a good thing, provided it is not accompanied by technological incompetence.

As more evidence of incompetence emerges, the government's reforms look too timid.

It is hard to believe also that this is due to technical incompetence.

Failing to dress well suggests an incompetence that might undermine a woman's authority in other areas.

And even the incompetence has not been all his fault.

That's why they created this world-wide agencies to cover their tracks and plead ignorance or incompetence.

Yes, you're right, let them wallow in their own incompetence.

Many see openness as a cure for corruption and incompetence in public administration.

Colleagues who are always late are revealing signs of a larger incompetence in many other, less visible, parts of their lives.

But thanks to incompetence and corruption, vast shipments of food rotted before reaching the shops.

Unfortunately, corruption and incompetence is an ubiquitous part of our world.

It's incompetence, after all, and academic freedom does not protect incompetence.

If he knew nothing of what was going on he should be sacked for incompetence.

Carlyle proves his dishonesty and incompetence by not being the one to read the article he posted up.

But what's really offputting about this article is the fact that you seem to delight in your own incompetence.

Just another example of the incompetence of state agencies.

The higher up you go, the more incompetence you find.

The book describes the regime's repression, corruption and incompetence at home, and its aggression and subversion abroad.

And incompetence is not sufficient reason to revoke a license.

In some cases ignorance and incompetence were the culprits.

She had difficulties with their incompetence and now she is having problems with search committees.

The exact combination of bribery and/or incompetence that allowed him to slip away is.

In eight cases, the doctor was found guilty of negligence and incompetence.

She avoids criticising the present government for its corruption and incompetence.

Incompetence and hypocrisy have been front and center during the budget bickering.

Your best bet is to throw your weight around in such a way that the dean's incompetence affects lots of other people on campus.

State investigators concluded that this was an isolated case of incompetence at the hospital.

In only two posts you go from accusing the scientific community of gross incompetence to conpiracy.

Estrada's failings were limited to cronyism and incompetence.

Colleagues said he had been exposing corruption and incompetence in government as well as illegal gambling.

The thing that has always struck me about the novel is the bleakness and incompetence of many of the characters.

However, the latest commotion appears to have involved as much incompetence as calculation.

Your dean has really risen to the highest level of his incompetence.

And then before you know it you have a culture of tolerated incompetence.

Nakajima is the protector of this continued incompetence and the holder of many dirty secrets.

Elias also took the time to realize that it was extreme incompetence that put him the situation in the first place.

At the bottom of it is always professional incompetence and inability which they try to hide by being socially active.

But it will do little to pacify citizens angered by official corruption, incompetence and negligence.

Any hint at incompetence would be seized on, however absurdly, as racism.

Yet the government's efforts so far have been hampered as much by incompetence and political cowardice as a shortage of funds.

Bishop would certainly have had reason to be angry at anyone whose incompetence interfered with her career.

The electoral commission put the figure at a few tens of thousands, and ascribed the problem to incompetence.

Morrisey had reached his level of incompetence and couldn't go further.

Stories abound of broken promises, incompetence and corruption.

Many of the issues you're talking about are consequences of poor working conditions, and not teacher's incompetence.

The crisis owes far more to incompetence than criminality.

The resulting corruption and incompetence have squandered much public trust.

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World English Dictionary

incompetent (ɪnˈkɒmpɪtənt)

—*adj*
1.	not possessing the necessary ability, skill, etc to do or carry out a task; incapable
2.	marked by lack of ability, skill, etc
3.	law not legally qualified: an incompetent witness
4.	(of rock strata, folds, etc) yielding readily to pressure so as to undergo structural deformation

—n
5.	an incompetent person

in'competence

—n

in'competency

—n

in'competently

—*adv*

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Medical Dictionary

incompetence in·com·pe·tence (ĭn-kŏm'pĭ-təns) or in·com·pe·ten·cy (-tən-sē)
n.

The quality of being incompetent or incapable of performing a function, as the failure of the cardiac valves to close properly.
The condition of being not legally qualified, as to stand trial.
The inability to distinguish right from wrong or to manage one's affairs.

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