Definition of Incompetent

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Incompetent

Not competent; wanting in adequate strength, power, capacity, means, qualifications, or the like; incapable; unable; inadequate; unfit.

Wanting the legal or constitutional qualifications; inadmissible; as, a person professedly wanting in religious belief is an incompetent witness in a court of law or equity; incompetent evidence.

Not lying within one's competency, capacity, or authorized power; not permissible.

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Incompetent Quotations

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
George Bernard Shaw

Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
George Bernard Shaw

Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
John Maynard Keynes

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
Isaac Asimov

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
John Cleese

There is a power in public opinion in this country - and I thank God for it: for it is the most honest and best of all powers - which will not tolerate an incompetent or unworthy man to hold in his weak or wicked hands the lives and fortunes of his fellow-citizens.
Martin Van Buren

I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.
Edith Sitwell

Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
Laurence J. Peter

I feel incompetent to perform duties... which have been so unexpectedly thrown upon me.
Andrew Johnson

War is something Arafat sends others to do for him. That is, the poor souls who believe in him. This pompous incompetent caused the failure of the Camp David negotiations, Clinton's mediation.
Oriana Fallaci

Incompetent Translations

incompetent in Norwegian is uskikket, inhabil
incompetent in Spanish is incompetente
incompetent in Swedish is oduglig

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