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incompetently

/in-kom-pi-tuhnt/US // ɪnˈkɒm pɪ tənt //UK // (ɪnˈkɒmpɪtənt) //

不称职地,无能地,不胜其烦,不胜其烦地

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : not competent; lacking qualification or ability; incapable: an incompetent candidate.
    • : characterized by or showing incompetence: His incompetent acting ruined the play.
    • : Law. being unable or legally unqualified to perform specified acts or to be held legally responsible for such acts.inadmissible, as evidence.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an incompetent person; a mentally deficient person.
    • : Law. a person lacking power to act with legal effectiveness.

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Examples

  • Investigations are ongoing, but it’s already clear this was a tragedy of incompetent leadership, failed intelligence and a giant mess of missed or crossed communications.

  • I just needed to prove it because the city of Washington is notoriously incompetent and always assumes it is right.

  • It is the reverse, especially now when representative democracy has produced truly incompetent governments in many places.

  • You are not eligible to vote if you claim voting residence outside the District or have been declared legally incompetent to vote by a court of law.

  • It was also littered with anti-Whitmer content, including a headline calling her “America’s most incompetent politician,” according to a cached version of the page.

  • Early on, the sexual protagonist complains that her Molson-drinking husband is pretty much an incompetent Neanderthal.

  • The cops were as incompetent as they often appear to be in the Holmes stories.

  • Insufficient protocols or incompetent practices for and by the nurses in the hospital hot zone.

  • To buy that you would have to accept that Brooks was either negligent or incompetent.

  • According to the historian John Saunders, he was a “weak, vain, incompetent and cowardly” leader.

  • It is the fashion there to regard it merely as a device to help an incompetent organist.

  • In such incompetent hands the malt business soon fell to be a liability rather than an asset.

  • Promotion came speedily when the guillotine cleared the way in the higher ranks by removing the incompetent and unfortunate.

  • The acts done under incompetent rulers, by those who disapprove of their claims, come from neither.

  • It was inelastic, incompetent to adapt itself to changing circumstances.