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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Recent Examples of incompetency
It's been a revolving door of incompetency under center for the Browns this year.
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Dan Perry, Newsweek, 2 Jan. 2025
Brown signed an incompetency finding last Wednesday.
—Skye Seipp, Austin American-Statesman, 5 Nov. 2024
Any disagreements, incompetencies, and misunderstandings will cause visible damage to your home and your mental health during the process.
—Aksha Mittapalli, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Aug. 2024
The entire public, with an average IQ of 100, was able to make an assessment of incompetency within the first three minutes or less of the debate.
—Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 4 July 2024
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Dan Perry, Newsweek, 2 Jan. 2025
Brown signed an incompetency finding last Wednesday.
—Skye Seipp, Austin American-Statesman, 5 Nov. 2024
Any disagreements, incompetencies, and misunderstandings will cause visible damage to your home and your mental health during the process.
—Aksha Mittapalli, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Aug. 2024
The entire public, with an average IQ of 100, was able to make an assessment of incompetency within the first three minutes or less of the debate.
—Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 4 July 2024
See All Example Sentences for incompetency
Recent Examples of Synonyms for incompetency
Noun
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And many insurance providers still define infertility as the inability to conceive after a year of trying, rather than the inability to conceive without medical intervention.—
Faith Hill,
The Atlantic,
19 Aug. 2025
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And while the energy sector is eager to modernize its systems, its inability to compete with the private tech industry on talent acquisition is putting the nation’s energy resilience at risk.—
Chris McClellen,
Forbes.com,
18 Aug. 2025
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The board meeting, including the line of people so eager to praise Battle and silence her critics, was all so hard to watch, and not just because of the egregious display of incompetence by whomever concocted such a terrible plan.—
Andrea Williams,
Nashville Tennessean,
15 Aug. 2025
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Secondly, and speaking of incompetence, Antoni is wholly unqualified.—
S.E. Cupp,
New York Daily News,
14 Aug. 2025
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“Incompetency.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incompetency. Accessed 25 Aug. 2025.
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