Definitions
lack of physical or intellectual ability or qualifications
Word origin
From French incompétence, equivalent to in- + competence.
Used in a sentence
“... at the head of a crew, too, chiefly made up of mongrel renegades, and castaways, and cannibals--morally enfeebled also, by the incompetence of mere unaided virtue or right-mindedness in Starbuck”
“Winston did not know why Withers had been disgraced. Perhaps it was for corruption or incompetence. Perhaps Big Brother was merely getting rid of a too-popular subordinate.”
“The factory where she worked was a poisonous mass of incompetence, favoritism, and sabotage.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Lack of skill”12 letters
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