INCOMPETENCE in a Sentence
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28 example sentences for INCOMPETENCE, such as:
1. The employee was dismissed as incompetent.
2. He's a Greek, so he says, and quite incompetent.
3. She seemed to them to be absolutely incompetent.
4. He wants the power to sack incompetent teachers.
5. I resent the charges of incompetence made against me.
2. He's a Greek, so he says, and quite incompetent.
3. She seemed to them to be absolutely incompetent.
4. He wants the power to sack incompetent teachers.
5. I resent the charges of incompetence made against me.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of INCOMPETENCE
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incompetence
n. lack of physical or intellectual ability or qualifications
n. inability of a part or organ to function properly
Classic Sentence:
1 Not that SHE ever understood: to this day she thinks that Aix didn't suit her, and mentions her having been sent there as proof of the incompetence of French doctors.
2 When, however, they began to pass into a new region, his old fears of stupidity and incompetence reassailed him, but this time he doggedly let them babble.
3 I have suffered a martyrdom from their incompetency and caprice.
4 He listened to her moans about lost customers and bad debts, the swindling ways of Mr. Johnson and the incompetency of Hugh.
5 If Lady Bertram, with all her incompetency and languor, could feel this, the inference of what her niece, alive and enlightened as she was, must feel, was elevating.
6 Draw lines of crime, of incompetency, of vice, as tightly and uncompromisingly as you will, for these things must be proscribed; but a color-line not only does not accomplish this purpose, but thwarts it.
7 Hugh was so incompetent, for all that he tried so hard.
8 They'll simply suffer in proud and incompetent silence.
9 It may well be conceived, what an unsavory odor such a mass must exhale; worse than an Assyrian city in the plague, when the living are incompetent to bury the departed.
10 Therefore, though I have considered, and even attempted to obtain, every conceivable post, I find myself incompetent for them all.
11 If there are a large number, it will instantly be ascribed to bad supervision or incompetent medical treatment.
12 He's a Greek, so he says, and quite incompetent.
13 She seemed to them to be absolutely incompetent.
Example Sentence:
1 I resent the charges of incompetence made against me.
2 Banks and building societies were yesterday accused of monumental incompetence.
3 People of my generation who lived through World War II have vivid memories of confusion and incompetence.
4 Management have demonstrated almost unbelievable incompetence in their handling of the dispute.
5 He displayed his incompetence by turning in a report that was full of errors.
6 She claimed that the rise in unemployment was just a further manifestation of the government's incompetence.
7 The incompetence and lazy of his students outrage him very much.
8 The journalist slanted the report so that the mayor was made to appear incompetent.
9 Ten years of incompetent government had brought about the virtual collapse of the country's economy.
10 The employee was dismissed as incompetent.
11 He wants the power to sack incompetent teachers.
12 Lazy and incompetent police officers are letting the public down.
13 With a few honourable exceptions, the staff were found to be incompetent.
14 Considering them to just be lazy and incompetent is an unacceptable excuse.
15 If Matthew Hoh was some kind of malcontent or incompetent, this would not be the story that it is.