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Definition of "incompetency" []

  • Incompetence. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "incompetency" in a sentence
  • "No, I think Mr. Meyerson gets it right; incompetency is a description but not an explanation, and it is only compounded when people who should know better excuse it for partisan gain."
  • "The incompetency is first with the entire White House."
  • "If you continue to support the administration now, even after the cronyism, the lying, the flip-flopping, and the sheer and utter incompetency is so obvious to the rest of the world, then there’s little hope of you joining the reality-based community."