How to Use incompetent in a Sentence

incompetent

adjective

• 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
• In 1874, the bank’s corrupt and incompetent white managers ran it into the ground.
  — Jason Zweig, WSJ, 25 Sep. 2020
• 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
• On Wednesday top Democrats hit Pence as incompetent and as Trump’s top enabler.
  — Dallas News, 27 Aug. 2020
• Your generals seemed incompetent, even a few of them were drunks.
  — Terry Pluto, cleveland, 16 Jan. 2021
• But Gideon, the speaker of the Maine House, said many of the federal judges nominated by Trump were incompetent.
  — David Sharp, Star Tribune, 11 Sep. 2020
• 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
• In this light The Favourite, a satire about an incompetent female ruler, is greeted very differently.
  — Nate Jones, Vulture, 2 Nov. 2024
• Or, to put it another way, the incompetent cartographers of Wall Street are, somehow, still in charge of the narrative.
  — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 27 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024