Thesaurus / incompetence
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Montgomery is mentally deteriorating and we are seeking an opportunity to prove her incompetence.
THE LAST TIME A WOMAN WAS EXECUTED FOR A FEDERAL CRIME, A KIDNAPPING RIVETED THE NATIONSAMANTHA SCHMIDTJANUARY 12, 2021WASHINGTON POST
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.
MAGISTRATE JUDGES TOOK BRIBES, STOLE MONEY AND MISHANDLED CASES. SOUTH CAROLINA OFFICIALS NOW WANT REFORM.BY JOSEPH CRANNEY, THE POST AND COURIERJANUARY 5, 2021PROPUBLICA
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.
NEW BILL PROPOSES STOPPING UNEMPLOYMENT AGENCIES THAT MAKE MISTAKES FROM DEMANDING MONEY BACKBY AVA KOFMANDECEMBER 9, 2020PROPUBLICA
The reasons included not only incompetence but corruption too.
MORE THAN 8 YEARS BEHIND SCHEDULE, BERLIN’S NEW AIRPORT OPENS TODAY AMID AN EPIC CRISIS IN AIR TRAVELDAVID MEYEROCTOBER 31, 2020FORTUNE
The men are still able to plead incompetence, if nothing else.
WORKING MOMS ARE NOT OKAYAMY JOYCE, ELLEN MCCARTHYOCTOBER 30, 2020WASHINGTON POST
“Never attribute to conspiracy that which can be explained by incompetence,” Baber said.
POLITICS REPORT: FORGED FOOTNOTE 15SCOTT LEWIS AND ANDREW KEATTSSEPTEMBER 12, 2020VOICE OF SAN DIEGO
Inexhaustibly kind to undeserved misfortune, a little impatient of mere incompetence, implacable to continuous idiocy.
THE CREATORSMAY SINCLAIR
It was chiefly a question of incompetence, no doubt, but there was no consolation in admitting that.
MOUNT EVEREST THE RECONNAISSANCE, 1921CHARLES KENNETH HOWARD-BURY
One was the incompetence of the Irish people for local government.
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But when a layman ventures to plunge deeply into legal subjects, he is naturally apt to make an exhibition of his incompetence.
IS SHAKESPEARE DEAD?MARK TWAIN
WORDS RELATED TO INCOMPETENCE
- blemish
- dearth
- defalcation
- defectiveness
- deficiency
- deficit
- drawback
- failing
- faultiness
- flaw
- imperfection
- inadequateness
- inaptness
- incapacity
- incompetence
- incompetency
- incompleteness
- ineffectiveness
- ineffectualness
- inefficacy
- inefficiency
- ineptitude
- insufficiency
- lack
- meagerness
- paucity
- poverty
- scantiness
- shortcoming
- skimpiness
- underage
- unfitness
- unsuitableness
- weakness
- blemish
- dearth
- defalcation
- defectiveness
- deficiency
- deficit
- drawback
- failing
- faultiness
- flaw
- imperfection
- inadequateness
- inaptness
- incapacity
- incompetence
- incompetency
- incompleteness
- ineffectiveness
- ineffectualness
- inefficacy
- inefficiency
- ineptitude
- insufficiency
- lack
- meagerness
- paucity
- poverty
- scantiness
- shortcoming
- skimpiness
- underage
- unfitness
- unsuitableness
- weakness
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