In fact, al Qaeda was plagued with incompetence from its birth.
For the GOP, his lost backing demonstrates a failed presidency, with a truly disastrous combination of arrogance and incompetence.
One, the public gets more and more disgusted with the appearance of incompetence.
The Israeli-Iranian rivalry is a highly competitive contest in incompetence.
He excoriated "Scooter Libby justice, and Brownie incompetence, and Karl Rove politics."
If any are debarred, the cause must be their own incompetence.
Democracy must always have incompetence in one form or another.
Though one part of his mind wanted him to smile at the quick assumption of his incompetence.
The jury system is nothing but a refined example of the cult of incompetence.
Through the incompetence of Titus and Lockridge, the key to Nicaragua was lost, perhaps for ever.
1660s, "inadequacy;" 1716, "want of skill," from French incompétence (mid-16c.), from in- "not, opposite of, without" (see in- (1)) + compétence (see competence). Native formation incompetency (from incompetent + -cy) is attested from 1610s.
incompetence in·com·pe·tence (ĭn-kŏm'pĭ-təns) or in·com·pe·ten·cy (-tən-sē)
n.
The quality of being incompetent or incapable of performing a function, as the failure of the cardiac valves to close properly.
The condition of being not legally qualified, as to stand trial.
The inability to distinguish right from wrong or to manage one's affairs.
