Synonyms for incompetence

Grammar : Noun

Spell : in-kom-pi-tuh ns or in-kom-pi-tuh n-see

Phonetic Transcription : ɪnˈkɒm pɪ təns or ɪnˈkɒm pɪ tən si

Définition of incompetence

Origin : 1660s, "inadequacy;" 1716, "want of skill," from French incompétence (mid-16c.), from in- "not, opposite of, without" (see in- (1)) + compétence (see competence). Native formation incompetency (from incompetent + -cy) is attested from 1610s.

noun lack of ability

Example sentences :

Was discharged for incompetence, and took up honest writing.
Extract from : « Who Was Who: 5000 B. C. to Date » by Anonymous

He dismissed her only this morning, on a trumped-up charge of incompetence.
Extract from : « The Crevice » by William John Burns and Isabel Ostrander

Yet in too many of the cases the sentence of incompetence or cowardice was just.
Extract from : « The Siege of Boston » by Allen French

You must become an advertiser or you must pay the penalty of incompetence.
Extract from : « The Clock that Had no Hands » by Herbert Kaufman

One was the incompetence of the Irish people for local government.
Extract from : « Home Rule » by Harold Spender

In this despatch David Dundas proclaimed his own incompetence.
Extract from : « William Pitt and the Great War » by John Holland Rose

The artist sees only himself and bears only the weight of his own incompetence.
Extract from : « Robert Orange » by John Oliver Hobbes

That's why you are not competent to do anything, and you are unhappy because of this incompetence.
Extract from : « Foma Gordyeff » by Maxim Gorky

It was incompetence and perhaps cowardice which brought his final ruin.
Extract from : « Washington and his Comrades in Arms » by George Wrong

Democracy must always have incompetence in one form or another.
Extract from : « The Cult of Incompetence » by Emile Faguet

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