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- 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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What to call the inept, incompetent, and inferior
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“Incompetency.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incompetency. Accessed 2 Oct. 2022.
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The first known use of incompetency was in 1611
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