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Incompetently

Incompetently \In*com"pe*tent*ly\, adv. In an competent manner; inadequately; unsuitably.

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incompetently

adv. In an incompetent manner.

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incompetently

adv. in an incompetent manner; "he did the job rather incompetently" [syn: displaying incompetence] [ant: competently]

Usage examples of "incompetently".

TV programmes and films, even the casual science -the throwaway lines that are not essential to a plot already innocent of science - is done incompetently.

And so science (and other) teaching is too often incompetently or uninspiringly done, its practitioners, astonishingly, having little or no training in their subjects, impatient with the method and in a hurry to get to the findings of science - and sometimes themselves unable to distinguish science from pseudoscience.

As Gibreel (with something like relish) described positions, love--bites, the secret vocabularies of desire, they strolled in Brickhall Fields among schoolgirls and roller-- skating infants and fathers throwing boomerangs and frisbees incompetently at scornful sons, and picked their way through broiling horizontal secretarial flesh.