omnicompetent
Britishadjective
Other Word Forms
- omnicompetence noun
Example Sentences
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Given that Balty is lovably bumbling, it’s inevitable that he should be advised by an all-knowing Jeeves, the omnicompetent, if slightly morose Huncks.
From Washington Post • May 1, 2018
As a boy in Hidden Hills, in the San Fernando Valley, Fogelson seemed immune to this kind of self-doubt: omnicompetent at playing soccer, hitting a golf ball, cooking duck à l’orange.
From The New Yorker • Jan. 11, 2016
Brittany Pollack, who danced her first Dewdrop this season, seems one of the company’s omnicompetent performers.
From New York Times • Dec. 31, 2013
The Jet Age secret agent was charming, omnicompetent, and exceedingly well-traveled.
From Slate • Nov. 6, 2013
There was no serious trouble with the doctrine of the omnicompetent citizen until the democratic stereotype was universally applied, so that men looked at a complicated civilization and saw an enclosed village.
From Public Opinion by Lippmann, Walter
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