How to Use incompetent in a Sentence

incompetent

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  • The defendant was declared incompetent to stand trial.
  • The patient is mentally incompetent.
  • He is too incompetent to be trusted with such an important responsibility.
  • But the Jets have already pushed their pieces to the middle and would look incompetent if this deal doesn’t get done.
    — Michael Arinze, Chicago Tribune, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Trump tried to turn the focus less on Biden’s age than the fact that the president, in his words, was incompetent.
    — Ted Johnson, Deadline, 28 June 2024
  • The more one had, the more likely one would be declared incompetent.
    — Shannon Toll, The Conversation, 23 Oct. 2023
  • Even Democrats have agreed that – that he's been completely incompetent and not on the ball there, so to say.
    — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 21 Jan. 2024
  • The talent gap is either too wide, the on-field play too incompetent or both.
    — Stephen Means, cleveland, 24 Nov. 2020
  • And in the 2019 bank robbery case, she was found incompetent to stand trial.
    — David K. Li, NBC News, 26 July 2022
  • Pause for a walk, some tea, deep breaths Think driver who was yelled at is just incompetent?
    — Lizzy Acker, oregonlive, 7 Mar. 2023
  • She has been deemed incompetent by the nursing home and therefore can’t name me as a contact.
    — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 28 July 2023
  • Good people won’t want to work hard to line the pockets of incompetent or mean leaders.
    — Kelly Tyler Byrnes, Forbes, 3 June 2021
  • The suspect in the Boulder shooting was deemed incompetent to stand trial in March.
    — Anna Kaplan, Forbes, 14 May 2022
  • Hawthorne was indicted in May on the same charges in the case, but in August was declared incompetent to stand trial.
    — Elizabeth Zavala, San Antonio Express-News, 24 Nov. 2021
  • Barr said in the interview that Trump agreed that his legal team might be incompetent.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 28 June 2021
  • Two — ages 14 and 10 — were found incompetent to stand trial.
    — jsonline.com, 20 Apr. 2022
  • Hundreds of inmates in the Bexar County jail have been deemed incompetent to stand trial, but that could change soon.
    — Scott Huddleston, San Antonio Express-News, 3 Apr. 2023
  • Writing a nasty review to point out how incompetent a business is can hurt that business for years to come.
    — Jennifer Coy, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2021
  • Your generals seemed incompetent, even a few of them were drunks.
    — Terry Pluto, cleveland, 16 Jan. 2021
  • At the end of the day our two big incompetent behemoths function as a unifying force in a nation with too few.
    — Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 13 May 2021
  • For months, Prigozhin had berated them as incompetent, corrupt and out-of-touch.
    — Mary Ilyushina, Anchorage Daily News, 26 June 2023
  • But don’t come at me for being incompetent and clueless as a parent.
    — Saul Austerlitz, The Atlantic, 5 Mar. 2024
  • People who have been deemed incompetent sit in county jails until a spot opens.
    — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 July 2023
  • The incompetent Communist Party of#Cuba cannot feed or protect the people from the virus.
    — Star Tribune, 13 July 2021
  • The mistreatment lands between the incompetent and the provocative.
    — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2021
  • August 2014 Judge Michael Bohren finds Geyser incompetent and suspends the prosecution of the charges against her.
    — Jim Riccioli, USA TODAY, 12 Apr. 2024
  • One of those residents had been found incompetent to vote by a court, but the others had not, according to the sheriff's office.
    — Patrick Marley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2 Nov. 2021
  • Or what happens if the land owners under the law are declared incompetent.
    — Mark Trahant, Star Tribune, 8 May 2021
  • And if all of those systems are either corrupt or bankrupt or incompetent, then that doesn't happen.
    — Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 23 Sep. 2024
  • He’ll be surrounded by people who are like him, incompetent, who don’t really care about us extremists.
    — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 22 Oct. 2024

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