Someone who is not competent to take effective action

Usage examples of incompetent.

It seemed that Kevarsh was as incompetent at running the household abovestairs as he was below.

James McHenry, an incompetent but affable man whom Adams rather liked.

Our army and cavalla were little better, shunned and mocked when they abandoned their uniforms to become beggars, despised as cowards and incompetents if they chose to remain in the service of the king.

The Directoire suffered heavily in prestige by the events of a war which it had so lightly provoked and was so incompetent to conduct.

The danger was too great for the dogs, their handlers and the Marines they were leading: incompetent scouting was a deadly formula.

I believe I shall come here and buy this shop at an amazingly cheap price, turn these incompetents out on their ear, and make a go of dressmaking myself.

I read, the more I was convinced that I had given such an opinion as must stamp me the most incompetent, or the falsest of critics.

Tracing the views of Christians as to the nature of the soul, and the life to come in heaven or hell, back to the rude conceptions of the naked savages who fashioned their idea of the ghost from the shadow or the reflection of the man, which was a picture or representative of him, yet without matter, and from the phenomena of dreams, in which they supposed the spirit of the man left him and went through the adventures of the dream and returned ere he awoke it has been asserted that every form of later faith, however refined and improved in details, yet really resting on such puerile fancies, such incompetent and absurd beginnings, is thereby discredited and must be rejected.

He claims he was completely out of it, incompetent to stand trial, and yet it went on without him getting any medical attention, without him even being checked by a doctor.

The country Boers were little affected, some of them not at all, but the Pretoria Government became a most corrupt oligarchy, venal and incompetent to the last degree.

Russia fell to the Bolsheviks, it was because of the corrupt and incompetent leadership of the Tsar and his cronies.

Magadha, the chief councilor does the actual work of administering the country, aided by some thirty councilors, many of them hereditary and most of them incompetent.

Nonpol, however, was not officered by incompetents but experts who knew enough of the situation to realize that the cybernetic brain now in virtual control of the Earth might have other means of observation.

He will be grouped, along with presidents like Grant and Harding, as a corrupt and incompetent mockery of the American Dream he praised so long and loud in all his speeches.

You have not only the honor of being my steward, but the privilege of being the worst, most incompetent, drivelling snivelling jibbering jabbering idiot of a steward in France.