incompetent


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Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

Synonyms for incompetent

totally incapable of doing a job

lacking the qualities, as efficiency or skill, required to produce desired results

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Synonyms for incompetent

someone who is not competent to take effective action

legally not qualified or sufficient

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not qualified or suited for a purpose

showing lack of skill or aptitude

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not doing a good job

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not meeting requirements

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After he was found to be incompetent, treatment staff obtained a court order authorizing involuntary medication.
The court rejected Klein's argument that the fact that he had never done a condemnation appraisal was insufficient criteria to find him incompetent because the Department's finding was that the "appraisal" was incompetent, and there was sufficient evidence to support the finding that the "appraisal" was incompetent.
In her holier-than-thou resignation speech, when she tried to portray herself as a cross between Joan of Arc and Mother Teresa, she denied yet again that she'd been incompetent. Well I'm sorry, she IS incompetent and she IS dishonest.
And unlike the Criminally Incompetent, heroic PMs know what they are about--providing this country with the technical means necessary to ensure the interests of liberty and democracy around the world.
Today, managers of collapsing telecom and energy trading companies are the incompetent ones.
THE IMMIGRATION & NATURALIZATION SERVICE WAS INCOMPETENT SO THEY GOT KICKED OUT OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT!
Gregory branded linesman Andy Martin "incompetent" after Nobby Solano had set up Newcastle's second goal from an offside position.
Teachers considered problematic were those judged incompetent in effectively teaching their subjects and unable to control violent student behavior in class.
Bianculli notes another issue: whether an incompetent resident can consent to the camera's placement.
There are many incompetent people in the world, but chances are they don't know it, reports the New York Times.
Debate in the Belgian Senate at the end of 1997 led to a request that the committee analyze "life-terminating actions" for incompetent patients.
This was the premise of medieval politics, which maintained that only the church and kings anointed or deputized by God via the church were deemed capable of determining the moral direction of the state, since the fall left the people morally incompetent for this task.
Human Resources managers are distressingly aware that more than half the middle and senior managers (40- and 50-year-olds) in their organizations are technologically Incompetent. That may be a conservative estimate.
If a mentally incompetent individual enters into a contract, under many instances that individual is entitled to disaffirm the contract.[1]
Although the term "mental incapacity" and "mental incompetency" are used interchangeably, there is a movement in the literature as well as the revised state probate codes to use the term "mental incapacity" so as to avoid the stigma of the person being referred to as "mentally incompetent".