Explore Incompetence through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like incompetency or inability. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Incompetence in a sentence
Incompetence meaning
An inability to perform; a lack of competence; ineptitude.
Synonyms of Incompetence
Using Incompetence
- The main meaning on this page is: An inability to perform; a lack of competence; ineptitude.
- Useful related words include: incompetency, inability, unfitness, competence.
- In the example corpus, incompetence often appears in combinations such as: incompetence and, and incompetence, of incompetence.
Context around Incompetence
- Average sentence length in these examples: 19.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 12 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Incompetence
- In this selection, "incompetence" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 19.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, economic, eradicating, deployment, promoting, inaction and faster stand out and add context to how "incompetence" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include level of incompetence and bad governance incompetence and blatant. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "incompetence" sits close to words such as abnormal, apologise and arteta, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with incompetence
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Nobody could fake that level of incompetence. (7 words)
He’s risen to his level of incompetence. (8 words)
Gambling is the reason for incompetence of the Refs. (9 words)
No matter how many commissions we set up and arrests we make, bad governance, incompetence and blatant corruption just seems to respawn as if we were in a video game with every cheat on. (34 words)
Corruption and incompetence are both older and more rooted than the Republic itself, but in one fell swoop, Guyana’s most admired Speaker vanquished both into non-existence. (28 words)
Need the Senate (run by sane and patriotic people) to open an investigation so American tax payers are not paying a for profit company's incompetence and negligence. (28 words)
Example sentences (20)
And I was so mad by the incompetence of that campaign, which was completely incompetent.
And major reforms "" better governance, eradicating incompetence, promoting education, and women empowerment are crucial for progress.
But Mr Prigozhin has increasingly criticized the military brass, accusing it of incompetence and of starving his troops of munitions.
Corruption and incompetence are both older and more rooted than the Republic itself, but in one fell swoop, Guyana’s most admired Speaker vanquished both into non-existence.
Even if we clean up corruption and cadre-deployment incompetence, we’ll still have to deal creatively with our biggest handicap, distance.
Facing determined resistance and crippled by their own incompetence, they soon abandoned their ambitious plans.
Gambling is the reason for incompetence of the Refs.
He’s risen to his level of incompetence.
I attribute this to the staffing and resources available, not laziness or incompetence of the staff that are there.
I can hardly wait to see the next act of defiance and incompetence that comes from the woke party of destruction.
In a furious video on Twitter, Mr Farage said: "The economic incompetence with which this country is now being led beggars belief.
Incompetence is a better explanation than conspiracy in most human activity.
In fact, the label of failure should be attached to those countries whose incompetence, inaction and chaos in epidemic response had caused their people to suffer.
In other words, EU member states, including Lithuania, recognized their incompetence in providing own security and defence.
Kwarteng was sacked and Truss resigned a short time later, brought down not by any “anti-growth coalition” but their own economic incompetence.
Need the Senate (run by sane and patriotic people) to open an investigation so American tax payers are not paying a for profit company's incompetence and negligence.
Nobody could fake that level of incompetence.
No matter how many commissions we set up and arrests we make, bad governance, incompetence and blatant corruption just seems to respawn as if we were in a video game with every cheat on.
Nothing screams incompetence faster or louder than a consultant’s inability to maintain regular contact with clients.
People called it ‘staggering police incompetence’ and were disgusted at officers only using the phrase ‘innocent women’ for victims who were not sex workers.
Common combinations with incompetence
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- incompetence and 34×
- and incompetence 29×
- of incompetence 23×
- incompetence of 18×
- the incompetence 13×
- incompetence in 11×
- incompetence is 8×
- incompetence that 7×
- or incompetence 6×
- their incompetence 6×