Incompetency is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for INCOMPETENCY in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the state of being incompetent, also INCOMPETENCE
• inability to do something successfully; ineptitude
• the state or fact of being incompetent
• The quality or state of being incompetent; want of physical, intellectual, or moral ability; insufficiency; inadequacy; as, the incompetency of a child hard labor, or of an idiot for intellectual efforts.
• Want 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.
• lack of physical or intellectual ability or qualifications

Words related to INCOMPETENCY

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How to use INCOMPETENCY in a sentence

• Jack was filled with dire fears that the commanding officer, having discovered the incompetency of Oswald, feared to take the Caribees to the front.
• Hooker, feeling his incompetency, and on bad terms with Halleck, the general-in-chief, asked to be relieved, and his request was at once granted.
• In September the news came North of the battle of Camden and the defeat of Gates, who showed an incompetency equal to his self-sufficiency, and Congress was obliged to remove him.
• But at last his incompetency can no further be concealed.
• 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.
• The ground for such action was usually said to be incompetency and liability to abuse their office and influence to the injury of the laws and peace of the country.
• The general or special incompetency of these distinguished functionaries in their several spheres may probably be covered by the capacity of their subordinates.
• He would often exhibit his piety in order to draw attention away from His Royal Incompetency.
• Such a book might change the attitude of the public towards those who are unfortunate enough to have the stigma of mental incompetency put upon them.
• This cry was a confession of their own incompetency.
• In a living and moving institution such as the Christian Church, you cannot afford to be lenient to incompetency.
• He carried on his operations with the utmost vigor, and was greatly assisted by the incompetency of the Carthaginian generals.
• The incompetency and inactivity of the British general caused July and August to pass uselessly.
• How the long-suffering English public can continue to support the incompetency and the supercilious contempt with which these gentry treat their employers is to me a mystery.
• Lee was saved at Antietam and at Gettysburg by the incompetency of McClellan and Meade.
• That he escaped destruction was due to his good fortune and to our incompetency and not to his own merit as commander.
• Between fright and incompetency I passed a most inadequate examination.
• Weak hands seized the helm from which his strong one had been struck, incompetency succeeded genius, and three years more of a weakening struggle brought the contest to an end.
• His incompetency was everywhere acknowledged, and indeed he himself would have been the last man to deny it.
• Such are the rules that the wisdom of successive generations of men, learned in the law, have adopted for the establishment of the competency or incompetency of witnesses.
• During the first two years of the war the English forces sustained several disasters through the incompetency of the English commanders on land and sea.
• I have suffered a martyrdom from their incompetency and caprice.
• He gives examples of the carelessness and incompetency of the rural record keepers, and insists that the percentage is really much higher than the official figures would indicate.
• Arrest and report followed immediately on detection, and if the cure was rude, the plague of incompetency was radically dealt with.
• It was a case of moral cowardice rather than incompetency.
• The notion is certainly supported by the familiar incompetency of first rate men for what are called practical concerns.
• It would have been an act of the most gross imprudence and incompetency to have put an army ashore unless the supremacy of the navy on the sea was absolute.
• My blows were delivered with more extreme violence than I ever think I exerted, but I became painfully convinced of my incompetency.
• To have to kill to gain an end is conclusive evidence of incompetency.
• The reason is based on inability and incompetency of the slave, the minor and the idiot.
• We must dismiss at once any prejudice born of the ignorance, incompetency, or untrustworthiness of many workers.
• So, too, Negro enfranchisement meant reconstruction, with its theft and bribery and incompetency as well as its public schools and enlightened, social legislation.
• Their vanity is only equal to their incompetency in all matters that count.
• The chief charges against the Negro governments are extravagance, theft, and incompetency of officials.

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