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Meanings of incompetency in English

Portuguese
incompetência
Catalan
incompetència
Spanish
incapacidad

Lack of physical or intellectual ability or qualifications.

incompetência
Usage of incompetency in English
1
But when your best defence is incompetency, something has gone drastically wrong.
The South African
2
The rest of the world must pay for the mistakes of incompetency.
The Lady Doc
3
That sounded pleasant, but very ambitious: a sense of incompetency chilled her.
In the Year of Jubilee
4
Yet again this week, Ramaphosa expressed his surprise at the incompetency blighting Eskom.
The South African
5
The Daily Maverick report that his incompetency is set to hurt SA again.
The South African
6
There is favouritism and incompetency in everything that is being done.
Indiscreet Letters From Peking / Being the Notes of an Eye-Witne...
7
Milly realized her inadequacy, but naturally did not ascribe it wholly to incompetency.
One Woman's Life
8
Rivardi, smarting under a sense of loss and incompetency, went up to her.
The Secret Power
9
And I am going to stick-unlessI get fired for incompetency!
Under Handicap / A Novel
10
He says Mbalula was merely attempting to deflect from his own incompetency in office.
The South African
11
They encountered other difficulties quite apart from the incompetency or dishonesty of their directors.
The American Nation: A History — Volume 1: European Background o...
12
Mr. Glynde did not like this subtle feeling of incompetency.
From One Generation to Another
13
But at last his incompetency can no further be concealed.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 11, September, 1858 / A Mag...
14
The struggles and incompetency of most SOE's are well documented.
The South African
15
That was regarded, perhaps rightly, as a sign of incompetency.
Community Civics and Rural Life
16
The chief charges against the Negro governments are extravagance, theft, and incompetency of officials.
The Negro
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incompetência
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