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incompetence

noun as in lack of ability

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It’s not the disinformation he and allies may find hard to admit, it’s the incompetence—the BBC-like incompetence.

Here was the mirror image of the same incompetence Meredith Whitney was making her name pointing out.

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Under the California Probate Code, the most common reasons include breach of trust, insolvency, unfitness and incompetence, hostility or deadlock, excessive and/or disqualification where the trustee becomes legally barred from serving.

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This mixture of vagueness and sheer incompetence is the most marked characteristic of modern English prose, and especially of any kind of political writing.

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He’ll focus first on city services such as garbage collection, knowing he can lose it all if he shows incompetence on the basics.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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