How to Use uncompetitive in a Sentence

uncompetitive

adjective
Definition of uncompetitivenext
Synonyms for uncompetitivenext
  • As long as the school system keeps offering uncompetitive wages, people looking for jobs will apply elsewhere.
  • With a team that’s given up the most goals in the league, that’s the recipe for a lot of uncompetitive losses.
    — Dylan Bumbarger, oregonlive, 18 Feb. 2022
  • Webb’s final four pitches were four uncompetitive balls to Shohei Ohtani, the ninth batter to reach base of the 20 Dodgers to come to the plate against the Giants’ ace.
    — Evan Webeck, The Mercury News, 3 Apr. 2024
  • In many of those, the games themselves were about as uncompetitive as that record would suggest.
    — Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic, 25 Apr. 2022
  • Shoring up the old uncompetitive power plants is not the only thing at stake, though.
    — John Funk, cleveland.com, 16 June 2017
  • That’s just one of the many ways that vehicles grow uncompetitive over time.
    — Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 12 June 2018
  • The trouble is that in the services sector there are a lot of uncompetitive people.
    — Eshe Nelson, Quartz, 14 June 2019
  • This wasn’t the defeat at the hands of Arkansas, where the defense allowed 644 yards and looked uncompetitive.
    — Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 29 Oct. 2022
  • Coming out of the bye, the Rams mustered a season-low 223 yards and looked uncompetitive against their biggest rival.
    — Adam Burke, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2022
  • Casteel has been uncompetitive in three losses to Chandler, Hamilton and Basha over the past four weeks.
    — Theo MacKie, The Arizona Republic, 10 Nov. 2022
  • In an uncompetitive field, the U.K. boasts both a reasonable record and plans for tackling the climate crisis.
    — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2021
  • The result were the same as its been throughout the Fever's now-seven-game losing streak: an uncompetitive loss — this one 89-81 to Connecticut.
    — Wilson Moore, The Indianapolis Star, 13 July 2022
  • But if making a finals uncompetitive is the standard for ruining the sport, the Warriors may have been too late.
    — Benjamin Hoffman, New York Times, 9 June 2018
  • The group won’t be confused with the 1990s Braves, but all of its members have shown the arsenals to avoid the repetitively uncompetitive contests of a year ago.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 31 Mar. 2021
  • The point is, Democrats look increasingly uncompetitive for the Senate in states that aren’t at least purple-ish.
    — Dylan Matthews, Vox, 8 Nov. 2018
  • With 10 or so laps to go and running solidly mid-pack, though, Ware’s No. 52 was pulled from the race due to what IndyCar race control deemed uncompetitive speeds.
    — Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 20 Aug. 2021
  • Others might say that a great race anywhere on the grounds that Tony Hulman saved in November of 1945 is better than a boring, uncompetitive one on the oval.
    — Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 13 Aug. 2021
  • The perennially-uncompetitive Oakland Raiders have risen to the top of the standings this season thanks to a high-powered offense.
    — Benjamin Hoffman, New York Times, 18 Dec. 2016
  • Gelsinger said that it’s been economically uncompetitive to build plants in the US compared with East Asia.
    — Bloomberg, The Mercury News, 20 Mar. 2024
  • That compares to the wildly uncompetitive map Ohio has used since through this year, which favors Republicans to win 12 of 16 seats.
    — Andrew J. Tobias, cleveland, 19 July 2022
  • The main driver of GM’s failure a decade ago was its uncompetitive labor contracts.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 27 Nov. 2018
  • Ford in the 2010s, on the other hand, had only the uncompetitive, uncompelling Focus Electric.
    — John Voelcker, Car and Driver, 15 Oct. 2021
  • More on Tigers: Their at-bats were uncompetitive throughout, swinging early in counts at an array of breaking balls Nova threw at them.
    — Anthony Fenech, Detroit Free Press, 7 Aug. 2019
  • New Jersey did so despite what many thought would be an uncompetitive affair.
    — Harry Enten, CNN, 7 Nov. 2021
  • To see the challenge ahead, consider the present state of the U.S. weapons industry, which is already remarkably uncompetitive.
    — Ganesh Sitaraman, Foreign Affairs, 10 Feb. 2020
  • The series was a roller coaster and mostly uncompetitive.
    — New York Times, 4 July 2021
  • Amid a sea of uncompetitive games, Lake Havasu’s visit to Waddell last week provided the Jaguars with a necessary test ahead of the rigors of postseason play.
    — Theo MacKie, The Arizona Republic, 26 Apr. 2022
  • The old, uncompetitive U.S. tax laws forced jobs and investment overseas.
    — Rob Portman, WSJ, 20 Apr. 2021
  • The problem is that airlines can’t afford to sign expensive long-term contracts that might leave them uncompetitive as oil prices fluctuate.
    — Justin Worland, TIME, 23 July 2024
  • The team leaders didn’t want another uncompetitive summer and general manager David Stearns made shrewd moves to lengthen the lineup and provide pitching help.
    — Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 19 July 2024

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