Thesaurus / incompetent
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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.
THE DANGER OF RIGHT-WING MOBS IS REAL. FENCING AT THE U.S. CAPITOL WON’T HELP.PHILIP KENNICOTTFEBRUARY 1, 2021WASHINGTON POSTI just needed to prove it because the city of Washington is notoriously incompetent and always assumes it is right.
GENE WEINGARTEN: I SOMEHOW OWED D.C. $24,000. BUT NOT SO FAST!GENE WEINGARTENDECEMBER 10, 2020WASHINGTON POSTIt is the reverse, especially now when representative democracy has produced truly incompetent governments in many places.
VALÉRY GISCARD D’ESTAING, FORMER FRENCH PRESIDENT, DIES AT 94JIM HOAGLANDDECEMBER 2, 2020WASHINGTON POSTYou 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.
D.C. VOTING GUIDE: WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT EARLY VOTING, MAIL-IN BALLOTSMICHAEL BRICE-SADDLEROCTOBER 29, 2020WASHINGTON POSTIt 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.
MICHIGAN KIDNAPPING PLOT, LIKE SO MANY OTHER EXTREMIST CRIMES, FORESHADOWED ON SOCIAL MEDIACRAIG TIMBERG, ISAAC STANLEY-BECKEROCTOBER 8, 2020WASHINGTON POSTIf I do end up being the most incompetent person in the room, then that means that I’ve done my job properly!
THE ADVICE THAT HELPED THIS YEAR’S 40 UNDER 40 FIND THEIR OWN PATHKDUNN6SEPTEMBER 3, 2020FORTUNEIt is the fashion there to regard it merely as a device to help an incompetent organist.
THE RECENT REVOLUTION IN ORGAN BUILDINGGEORGE LAING MILLERIn such incompetent hands the malt business soon fell to be a liability rather than an asset.
THE EVE OF THE REVOLUTIONCARL BECKERPromotion came speedily when the guillotine cleared the way in the higher ranks by removing the incompetent and unfortunate.
NAPOLEON'S MARSHALSR. P. DUNN-PATTISONThe acts done under incompetent rulers, by those who disapprove of their claims, come from neither.
THE ORDINANCE OF COVENANTINGJOHN CUNNINGHAMWORDS RELATED TO INCOMPETENT
- can't hack it
- careless
- disorganized
- extravagant
- faulty
- feeble
- half-baked
- improficient
- improvident
- incapable
- incompetent
- ineffective
- ineffectual
- inefficacious
- inept
- inexpert
- not cut out for
- prodigal
- shooting blanks
- slack
- slipshod
- sloppy
- slovenly
- unfit
- unprepared
- unqualified
- unskilled
- unskillful
- untrained
- weak
- bereft
- defective
- deficient
- destitute
- devoid
- drained
- dry
- failing
- faulty
- imperfect
- inadequate
- incapable
- incommensurate
- incompetent
- incomplete
- infrequent
- meager
- minus
- out of
- poor
- rare
- scant
- scarce
- short
- short of
- shy
- thin
- too little too late
- unample
- unfinished
- unfitted
- unqualified
- unsatisfactory
- wanting
- abortive
- bootless
- counterproductive
- disadvantageous
- dysfunctional
- expendable
- feckless
- fruitless
- futile
- good-for-nothing
- hopeless
- idle
- impracticable
- impractical
- incompetent
- ineffective
- ineffectual
- inept
- inoperative
- meaningless
- no good
- nonfunctional
- of no use
- pointless
- profitless
- purposeless
- scrap
- stupid
- unavailable
- unavailing
- unfunctional
- unproductive
- unprofitable
- unpurposed
- unusable
- unusuable
- unworkable
- vain
- valueless
- waste
- weak
- worthless
- all thumbs
- amateurish
- artless
- blundering
- bulky
- bumbling
- bungling
- butterfingers
- clumsy
- coarse
- floundering
- gawky
- graceless
- green
- having two left feet
- having two left hands
- incompetent
- inept
- inexpert
- lumbering
- lumpish
- maladroit
- oafish
- rude
- stiff
- stumbling
- uncoordinated
- uncouth
- unfit
- ungainly
- ungraceful
- unhandy
- unpolished
- unrefined
- unskilled
- unskillful
- abortive
- anticlimactic
- barren
- bootless
- defeasible
- emasculate
- feckless
- feeble
- forceless
- fruitless
- futile
- idle
- impotent
- inadequate
- incompetent
- indecisive
- ineffectual
- inefficacious
- inefficient
- inept
- inferior
- innocuous
- inoperative
- lame
- limited
- neutralized
- no go
- no way
- not effective
- nugatory
- null
- paltry
- powerless
- slack-spined
- spineless
- unable
- unavailable
- unavailing
- unfruitful
- unproductive
- unprofitable
- unsuccessful
- vain
- void
- withered
- worthless
- abortive
- anticlimactic
- barren
- bootless
- defeasible
- feckless
- feeble
- forceless
- fruitless
- futile
- idle
- impotent
- inadequate
- incompetent
- indecisive
- inefficacious
- inefficient
- inept
- inferior
- innocuous
- inoperative
- invertebrate
- lame
- limited
- neutralized
- nugatory
- null
- null and void
- paltry
- powerless
- spineless
- unable
- unavailing
- unfruitful
- unproductive
- unprofitable
- unsuccessful
- vain
- void
- withered
- worthless
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