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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The film’s younger guys dress in fake fur and act like Neanderthals, while the middle-aged men who have jobs are portrayed as incompetent nincompoops.
  — Susan Pinker, WSJ, 21 Sep. 2023
• David Tronnes, the Orlando man accused of killing his wife at their Delaney Park home, was found incompetent to stand trial last week, court records show.
  — Monivette Cordeiro, orlandosentinel.com, 4 Feb. 2022
• Over the last 20 years, the number of people classified as incompetent to stand trial has increased by 38%.
  — Dallas News, 25 Jan. 2023
• He was also ruled incompetent at a bench trial in 2019, but was found competent to stand trial last year.
  — City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Mar. 2022
• Russia’s huge but incompetent army has been stymied in its attempts to seize the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, and other cities.
  — Doyle McManuswashington Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2022
• There are some exceptions, such as those who have served more than a year in prison or been declared mentally incompetent.
  — Devon Link, USA TODAY, 12 July 2021
• But perhaps fittingly, the most hilariously incompetent attack of them all has come from the man at the top of the GOP ticket.
  — Samantha Allen, Them, 7 Aug. 2024
• Last September a military judge ruled that the Ramzi bin al Shibh, the other defendant not participating in the plea agreement, was mentally incompetent to stand trial.
  — Luis Martinez, ABC News, 2 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 25 Sep 2024