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incompetence

/in-kom-pi-tuhns/US // ɪnˈkɒm pɪ təns //

不称职,无能,不胜任,不合格

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the quality or condition of being incompetent; lack of ability.
    • : Law. the condition of lacking power to act with legal effectiveness.

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Examples

  • Montgomery is mentally deteriorating and we are seeking an opportunity to prove her incompetence.

  • A 2019 series by The Post and Courier and ProPublica exposed how a flawed system of selection and oversight provided fertile ground for incompetence and corruption on the bench.

  • I realize state unemployment agencies have been given a tall task, but that’s no excuse for the level of incompetence and unresponsiveness they’ve demonstrated in delivering congressionally approved unemployment benefits.

  • The reasons included not only incompetence but corruption too.

  • The men are still able to plead incompetence, if nothing else.

  • And their suspicions make them see betrayal at every turn, even when incompetence may be the cause of a particular problem.

  • And they suggest something worse than incompetence is at work there.

  • And a successful two-term Governor of a state where the balloting incompetence and idiocy is absolutely vital to the GOP.

  • That and incompetence at the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital may have caused the deadly disease to spread.

  • Watching this incompetence is infuriating, and the view security cameras show from inside the mall is horrific.

  • Inexhaustibly kind to undeserved misfortune, a little impatient of mere incompetence, implacable to continuous idiocy.

  • It was chiefly a question of incompetence, no doubt, but there was no consolation in admitting that.

  • One was the incompetence of the Irish people for local government.

  • But when a layman ventures to plunge deeply into legal subjects, he is naturally apt to make an exhibition of his incompetence.

  • Many of these losses were due to the utter incompetence of the higher command.