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Word entry · 12 letters

incompetence

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"Lack of skill"

12 letters · collected on this word page

12 lettersPart of speech nounSorted cceeeimnnoptStarts with IEnds with E1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. 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.

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