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Meanings of incompetent in English

Portuguese
incompetente

Legally not qualified or sufficient.

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Catalan
incompetent

Someone who is not competent to take effective action.

incompetent
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Examples for "incompetent person"
Examples for "incompetent person"
1
Then it is because they are used by an incompetent person.
The Wolf's Long Howl
2
A more curiously incompetent person I never met.
The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies
3
This is a phenomenon where an incompetent person is too incompetent to understand his or her own incompetence.
Radio NZ
4
Ali Smith, author I'm not the best person to answer that because I'm the most digitally incompetent person in the land.
The Guardian
5
He sometimes presumes that 'you' have, 'through inadvertence' in this instance, 'allowed some incompetent person to lower the character of your usually accurate pages.'
A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I

Showing lack of skill or aptitude.

Not meeting requirements.

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Usage of incompetent in English
1
You simply can't trust this incompetent Tory-led government with the nation's forests.
The Guardian
2
I am therefore, of course, as John affirmed, a very incompetent biographer.
Odd John
3
Many Britons regard the EU as an incompetent, spendthrift source of bureaucracy.
Reuters
4
Thus far in our index, Swansea have not done anything incompetent whatsoever.
The Guardian
5
He is very proud and quite incompetent, which is a dangerous combination.
The good son: a novel
6
This government is weak, incompetent, divided and unable to take a decision.
The Guardian
7
They alienate their fans, yet take years to fire patently incompetent employees.
The football fan's manifesto
8
No need to say that it's because I'm a useless, incompetent fraud!'
Geomancer (Well of Echoes)
9
I personally consider him a ruthless, ambitious and utterly incompetent government administrator.
Legacy of ashes: the history of the cia
10
Desert-marriages are illegal; the children born of them are incompetent to inherit.
A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 6
11
The Administration is corrupt; our generals are either incompetent or purposely inefficient.
Frank's Campaign; Or, The Farm and the Camp
12
Read: Is this Eastern Cape municipality the most incompetent in the country?
The South African
13
The doctor stares at his clipboard, saying, It happens with incompetent labor.
Lit: a memoir
14
We, in the early stages of Alzheimer's, are not yet utterly incompetent.
Still alice
15
The forensic examination of the crime scenes had been, in general, incompetent.
The monster of florence
16
So far you've proven to be as incompetent as you are spineless.
Darkness unleashed
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Portuguese
incompetente
Incompetent through the time
Incompetent across language varieties
New Zealand
Common
Ireland
Common
United Kingdom
Common
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