And their suspicions make them see betrayal at every turn, even when incompetence may be the cause of a particular problem.
And they suggest something worse than incompetence is at work there.
That and incompetence at the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital may have caused the deadly disease to spread.
Watching this incompetence is infuriating, and the view security cameras show from inside the mall is horrific.
When it comes to the practice of democracy, Americans now have few illusions about our own incompetence, division, and negligence.
Was discharged for incompetence, and took up honest writing.
He dismissed her only this morning, on a trumped-up charge of incompetence.
Yet in too many of the cases the sentence of incompetence or cowardice was just.
You must become an advertiser or you must pay the penalty of incompetence.
One was the incompetence of the Irish people for local government.
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.