Incompetence

Definitions

An inability to perform; a lack of competence; ineptitude.

uncountable, usually

Equivalents

Examples

“... at the head of a crew, too, chiefly made up of mongrel renegades, and castaways, and cannibals--morally enfeebled also, by the incompetence of mere unaided virtue or right-mindedness in Starbuck”

“Winston did not know⟳ why Withers had been disgraced. Perhaps it was for corruption or incompetence. Perhaps Big Brother was merely getting rid⟳ of a too-popular subordinate.”

“The factory where she worked was a poisonous mass of incompetence, favoritism, and sabotage.”

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