as in inability
the lack of sufficient ability, power, or means
the incompetency of the secretary was revealed only after she had left the company, and her successor discovered years of filing left undone
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An effort to bolster the case for his incompetency?
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Matt Hamilton, Los Angeles Times, 12 Feb. 2024
Defendants come in and out, like a revolving door, only to have their case dismissed due to incompetency.
—Dan Daley, Sun Sentinel, 9 Jan. 2024
But county school boards can remove superintendents from office earlier for immorality, misconduct in office, insubordination, incompetency or willful neglect of duty, according to Maryland law.
—Nicole Asbury, Washington Post, 22 Jan. 2024
Instead, in a sequence indicative of the Dodgers’ offensive incompetency in these two games, both superstars failed to deliver.
—Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2023
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Matt Hamilton, Los Angeles Times, 12 Feb. 2024
Defendants come in and out, like a revolving door, only to have their case dismissed due to incompetency.
—Dan Daley, Sun Sentinel, 9 Jan. 2024
But county school boards can remove superintendents from office earlier for immorality, misconduct in office, insubordination, incompetency or willful neglect of duty, according to Maryland law.
—Nicole Asbury, Washington Post, 22 Jan. 2024
Instead, in a sequence indicative of the Dodgers’ offensive incompetency in these two games, both superstars failed to deliver.
—Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2023
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“Incompetency.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incompetency. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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