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February 03, 2009

incompetent

Incompetent

incompetent (adjective) - unable to do a job or task properly and correctly

almost all of us are going to be incompetent some time or another

suffering because of incompetent economic policies

he's mentally incompetent, he's got neurological problems

simply scared and incompetent clock-punchers

she called me incompetent
an incompetent idiot

the guy was totally incompetent
you were incompetent, and that's why you were let go

has heard a lot of complex, incompetent lies in his life, this one is the most absurd

All of a sudden, successful people find themselves incompetent-the idea of changing a diaper or how to console a baby is totally daunting to them.
I have learned that the president of the company is a doddering incompetent and that the sales manager never was any good.

notoriously incompetent
losing his job, being incompetent, bumbling his marriage -- and he has found himself almost debilitated

for many incompetent managers, membership of a committee is a status symbol

explained the failures to control inflation as the fault of his incompetent ministers

clumsy, incompetent, and oppressive
incompetent directors are sometimes unremovable

incompetent and without commonsense
was of no help and seemed incompetent

one of the world's most incompetent bureaucracies
most of the losses seem to stem from incompetent grain trading

incompetent and a drunkard
incompetent and out of touch with the realities of the situation
wrong in conception and incompetent in execution

recently we heard tales of incompetent doctors, hopelessly overworked nurses, and patients suffering from abuse and neglect

Why should we lose our natural resources and kill off our animals to protect an incompetent and profit-greedy industry like the timber industry?

protect them from incompetent doctors and substandard hospital care

The vast majority of us will be incompetent for a substantial period before we die, due to illness, due to Alzheimer

they're incompetent and have not left clear and explicit instructions

large incompetent staffs hired with party patronage
incompetent bureaucrats who have little or no training in economics, finance, or even accounting

that employee's just plain incompetent
incompetent managers
unqualified, incompetent, unprincipled mountebanks

His stock speech often includes blasts at incompetent teachers, the women's movement, lawyers, welfare, teen-age sex and television

He says his initial defense lawyers meant well, but were incompetent so now he is facing the death penalty

not only corrupt but incompetent
you're just incompetent

incompetent in practical matters

a bad friend and an incompetent politician, motivated by vanity

irrational, incompetent, irrelevant people, who were emotionally manacled, distracted by sentimentality, and bewitched by beauty

incompetent politicians

coping with incompetent buyers who need need a lot of help
later proved to be incompetent
inept and incompetent
clueless and incompetent
so clueless and incompetent, so capable of mismanagement that it has turned it into an art form.


Example sentences:

* Never in the history of post-war government has an administration proved so inept, so clueless, so complaining, so incompetent.

* Those who tend to vote against an incumbent government are those who see the government as a weak and incompetent one.

* He later proved to be incompetent as well as uninterested in the problems that went along with his job.

* Potter has heard a lot of complex, incompetent lies in his life but this one takes the cake.

* You can't the most difficult situation in in our job will be coping with incompetent buyers who need need a lot of help

*  The incompetent, therefore, are the bookish, the smart ones, those who have the theory but not the common sense, which only comes from experience and practice.

* In a heart-rending telephone call to a US television station, Mrs Dragseth said the US embassy was of no help, and it seemed incompetent even to register the fact of his abduction.

* Ethiopia became a punishment station for rejects from one of the world's most incompetent bureaucracies.

* New chairman Robert Corbett says most of the losses seem to stem from incompetent grain trading.

* His Curate was also incompetent, a drunkard, and moreover, made some extra income during the week by conducting illicit marriages.

* Our own politicians were incompetent, inefficient, and completely out of touch with the realities of the international situation.

* This Government has been pursuing an energy strategy that was wrong in conception and incompetent in execution.

* Amateurs are incompetent, and then they panic.

* The journal showed up the regime in the most clumsy, incompetent, and oppressive light.

* Rhee explained the failures to control inflation as the fault of his incompetent ministers but Muccio maintained that Rhee himself was to blame.

* For many incompetent managers, membership of a committee is a status symbol, presenting an opportunity to join an" inner circle" or" secret clan" of the privileged few.

* Clearly, a company's senior executives may become lethargic where shareholder pressure is lacking, and profitability is likely to be prejudiced where incompetent directors are effectively unremovable.

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