Crossword clues for incompetency
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Incompetence \In*com"pe*tence\, Incompetency \In*com"pe*tency\, n. [Cf. F. incomp['e]tence.]
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The quality or state of being incompetent; lack of physical, intellectual, or moral ability; lack of qualifications or training (for a particular task); insufficiency; inadequacy; as, the incompetency of a child for hard labor, or of an idiot for intellectual efforts. ``Some inherent incompetency.''
--Gladstone.Syn: incompetence.
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(Law) Lack of competency or legal fitness; incapacity; disqualification, as of a person to be heard as a witness, or to act as a juror, or of a judge to try a cause.
Syn: Inability; insufficiency; inadequacy; disqualification; incapability; unfitness.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1610s; see incompetence.
Wiktionary
n. The condition of being incompetent
WordNet
n. lack of physical or intellectual ability or qualifications [syn: incompetence] [ant: competence]
Usage examples of "incompetency".
Central for incompetency, but I have reported Central doctors for being turkeys.
The man who had escorted Roy into the trap was, in truth, a former workman at the Mortlake factory, who had been discharged for incompetency.
His unfailing courage and good sense won fights that the incompetency or cankering jealousy of commanders had lost.
He at first thought that it was the voices of the guns which had made a chilly inside for the man, but when he reflected upon the incompetency, or childish courier's falsity, at Patras and his discernible lack of sense from Agrinion onward, he felt that the fault was elemental in his nature.
He is never more at home than when exposing the incompetency of Neoplatonism, or demonstrating the harmony of Christian doctrine and true philosophy.