Thesaurus / incompetents
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synonyms for incompetents
- disappointment
- also-ran
- bankrupt
- bum
- castaway
- deadbeat
- defaulter
- derelict
- dud
- flop
- good-for-nothing
- has-been
- incompetent
- insolvent
- loafer
- loser
- might-have-been
- moocher
- nobody
- prodigal
- turkey
- underachiever
- washout
- born loser
- lumpy
- no-good
- nonperformer
On this page you'll find 78 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to incompetents, such as: blockhead, blunderer, bonehead, botcher, bumbler, and butcher.
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How to use incompetents in a sentence
There are many such men—meaning, of course, men having a level set of brains, and not mental incompetents.
OPPORTUNITIES IN ENGINEERINGCHARLES M. HORTONFrom them came Admiral Graves, and the crowd of incompetents who filled offices in America.
THE SIEGE OF BOSTONALLEN FRENCHWe're hopeless incompetents at statecraft and such things, at running a reasonable world—but we can cook!
THE BOOK OF SUSANLEE WILSON DODDMeasured by his standard they were a collection of incompetents.
JOHN BROWN, SOLDIER OF FORTUNEHILL PEEBLES WILSONThere'll be four of you, and at least two incompetents; and you've got to have money to live on.
THE QUICKENINGFRANCIS LYNDERecords showed that if the old couple were not actually senile incompetents, they were close to it.
THE IMPOSSIBLE VOYAGE HOMEFLOYD L. WALLACEYou're required to weed out incompetents wherever you find them without prejudice, mercy, or feeling.
ATTRITIONJIM WANNAMAKERThey are the sexual workmen to whom fornication is as much a necessity as poverty is to incompetents.
FANTAZIUS MALLAREBEN HECHTFor the avenues to the stage are blocked by perhaps more frivolous incompetents than any other profession.
YOUNG LIVESRICHARD LE GALLIENNEBut good came out of this evil, for Wilkinson was recalled and the law was nearly fulfilled—the incompetents were gone.
ROLF IN THE WOODSERNEST THOMPSON SETON