How to Use incompetence in a Sentence

incompetence

noun

• She was fired for gross incompetence.
• Because of his incompetence, we won't make our deadline.
• The wrath of the heavens, local Libyans contend, was matched by the incompetence of those calling the shots on the ground.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2023
• The burden rests on the defense to prove incompetence, Raven told CNN in an email.
  — Cheri Mossburg, CNN, 20 June 2023
• The bad news is the Mavs came by their incompetence honestly.
  — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 5 Apr. 2023
• But this total of 51 is a bit too high (see incompetence).
  — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 12 Oct. 2022
• Volodin’s threat is an utter fantasy, the incompetence of the Russian armed forces laid bare by the war in Ukraine.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 11 July 2022
• For all of his incompetence, Boudreau was at least likable.
  — Tanner McGrath, Chicago Tribune, 24 Jan. 2023
• The great shock is what the police did—their incompetence on the scene and apparent lies afterward.
  — Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 2 June 2022
• Your claim just fell between the cracks, and the airline covered its incompetence with form letters.
  — Christopher Elliott, BostonGlobe.com, 8 June 2022
• There are people who have known the president for years who would tell you Biden’s incompetence has nothing to do with his age.
  — Chris Roemer, Baltimore Sun, 27 Jan. 2024
• Even if the price went down through CEO incompetence, the shares were still worth something, and they were typically awarded on top of salary, bonus, and perks.
  — Geoff Colvin, Fortune, 5 May 2022
• That level of incompetence is tough to pull off for an incumbent.
  — Landon Mion, Fox News, 1 Mar. 2023
• You can be fired for incompetence, but you can’t just be removed from your position because the President has changed and wants to get rid of you.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 18 July 2023
• Some, like Gopnik, will have to reach back to childhood for memories of incompetence.
  — Barbara Spindel, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 May 2023
• On the other end, Chicago’s incompetence with the ball persisted despite a lack of pressure.
  — oregonlive, 18 June 2023
• For years, men have weaponized incompetence to avoid office drudge work, often leaving it to women.
  — Paolo Confino, Fortune, 31 Jan. 2023
• Joe Biden is the first official ever to be cleared by a special counsel for reasons of mental incompetence.
  — Rich Lowry, National Review, 9 Feb. 2024
• The country has relied on bravery and skill, and the incompetence of the Russian military, to stall and now gradually push back the invasion.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 15 Dec. 2022
• This is because people who tend to feel less capable than those around them avoid talking about it for fear that their feelings of incompetence will be confirmed.
  — Svetlana Whitener, Forbes, 25 Aug. 2022
• They have been mismanaged for years, but there’s very little uproar over their incompetence.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 7 July 2022
• This is a game between two horrendous defenses, so expect lots of points or lots of incompetence.
  — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 12 Oct. 2022
• For months before the mutiny, Prigozhin mocked and criticized Russia’s top military brass, accusing them of incompetence throughout the war in Ukraine.
  — NBC News, 23 Aug. 2023
• While some have seized on this as a sign of incompetence, game controllers are actually fairly common in the military.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 22 June 2023
• Corruption and incompetence in the construction of new power plants only made things worse.
  — Lynsey Chutel, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2023
• Amid the many accusations of incompetence and negligence that followed the wreck, stories of heroism stood out.
  — Erica Westly, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Dec. 2023
• The showdowns are expertly choreographed and edited to create authentic incompetence as these foes smash each other up all over the train cars.
  — Scott Mendelson, Forbes, 4 Aug. 2022
• There are a multitude of examples in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to suggest that, if the Russian Navy is of similar incompetence, the ship could have been lost due to ineptness on the part of the crew.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 9 May 2022
• The offensive incompetence of Arizona is a multi-faceted problem that includes bad offensive line play and bad quarterback play among others, but the onus is on the head coach to have his team ready to play.
  — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 20 Oct. 2022
• But none of that feedback indicates gross incompetence or self-dealing.
  — David D. Kirkpatrick, The New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024