incompetent

Example Sentences

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Scott said he didn’t like Powell’s answers “but ineptness or being incompetent is not a criminal act.”

From The Wall Street Journal

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has fired a senior official tasked with economic policy and condemned "incompetent" apparatchiks for delays in the opening of an important factory, state media said Tuesday.

From Barron's

Had I been a fool to devote half a century to a craft I was incompetent at?

From Los Angeles Times

In his famous “Foundation” series of science-fiction novels, Isaac Asimov wrote that violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

From Salon

Was he really that incompetent when it came to using the ring?

From Literature