How to Use incompetency in a Sentence

incompetency

noun
  • All in all, a great season content-wise, and their last of incompetency until this year.
    — SI.com, 21 Oct. 2019
  • In the final days of the race, Warnock has sought to stress his opponent’s incompetency and lying.
    — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 1 Dec. 2022
  • Defendants come in and out, like a revolving door, only to have their case dismissed due to incompetency.
    — Dan Daley, Sun Sentinel, 9 Jan. 2024
  • In most firms, that would be considered grounds for termination due to incompetency.
    — Wired Blogs, WIRED, 26 Aug. 2004
  • Under state statutes, claims of mental incompetency must first be reviewed before any case can proceed in criminal court.
    — Jim Riccioli, Journal Sentinel, 10 Dec. 2022
  • Under state statutes, claims of mental incompetency must first be reviewed before any case can proceed in criminal court.
    — Jim Riccioli, Journal Sentinel, 2 May 2023
  • Under state law, only a judge can declare a person ineligible to vote due to incompetency.
    — Jessie Opoien, Journal Sentinel, 9 Apr. 2024
  • Maybe that data suggests incompetency in the sporting director role.
    — Ian Nicholas Quillen, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Those safeguards found in the criminal justice system are put in place to ensure due process for people who need it most, especially in cases of incompetency.
    — Miguel Torres, The Arizona Republic, 30 Oct. 2021
  • The authorities fight amongst themselves on how to handle it, revealing all the cultural faults and incompetencies that were already present.
    — Julie Muncy, Wired, 17 Apr. 2020
  • Instead, in a sequence indicative of the Dodgers’ offensive incompetency in these two games, both superstars failed to deliver.
    — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2023
  • In some cases, Price said the trial for a person returning from the state hospital is not scheduled soon enough, and the inmate lapses back into legal incompetency.
    — Dallas News, 10 July 2022
  • Russia is so full of incompetency that the one person who emerged who was competent at military operations was Yevgeny Prigozhin.
    — Yasmeen Serhan, Time, 27 June 2023
  • The reproduction of systemic racism occurs not simply through white denial but also through the promotion of cultural incompetency.
    — Literary Hub, 16 Mar. 2026
  • But if people laugh at Homer Simpson and his ilk for their bellicose incompetency, the humor here lies in Elliot’s surplus of empathy.
    — Adrienne Matei, The Atlantic, 29 Nov. 2022
  • McManus, in firing the officers, also cited acts of incompetency, discourtesy and lack of moral character.
    — Express-News Staff Report, ExpressNews.com, 12 Aug. 2020
  • Although Ulrich was later charged with violating that restraining order, the case was dismissed due to mental incompetency.
    — Alex Chhith, Star Tribune, 19 Feb. 2021
  • To be honest, these Trojans probably were doomed from the start, irreparably damaged by their recent history and their conference’s incompetency.
    — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 15 Dec. 2020
  • Boiled down, that means that a lot of people living in Texas who are mentally ill, have dementia, or have some other type of incompetency can still legally vote merely because their case has never come before a judge.
    — Dallas News, 6 Sep. 2020
  • The entire public, with an average IQ of 100, was able to make an assessment of incompetency within the first three minutes or less of the debate.
    — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 4 July 2024
  • Refusing to go before constituents is an absolute manifestation of your corruption & incompetency for the job.
    — Bryan Schott, The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 Oct. 2022
  • There's a high degree of incompetency lurking within the club, and from the outside its almost impossible to pin down exactly where that stems from - though many would slap all the blame on Huw Jenkins.
    — SI.com, 29 Jan. 2018
  • The brother is referred to as a co-conspirator in the indictment against Ma, but prosecutors didn't charge him because of his incompetency due to Alzheimer's, the motion said.
    — Jennifer Sinco Kelleher, Star Tribune, 29 July 2021
  • In Arizona, the Department of Homeland Security must file any evidence of incompetency in its records to a judge.
    — Miguel Torres, The Arizona Republic, 30 Oct. 2021
  • Because medical treatment is likely different in the county jail than in a psychiatric hospital, Parker said a person can revert back to incompetency.
    — Elizabeth Depompei, Indianapolis Star, 29 Jan. 2020
  • The brother is referred to as a co-conspirator in the indictment against Ma, but prosecutors didn't charge him because of his incompetency because of the Alzheimer's, the motion said.
    — Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 31 July 2021
  • The prevailing theme of the anti-Trumpism herd being his illegitimacy and incompetency.
    — Dp Opinion, The Denver Post, 5 Dec. 2019
  • But if the impulsive incompetency continues, then eventually—many, many months from now—Republicans will join the impeachment effort.
    — Monique Judge, The Root, 12 July 2017
  • On Monday, Buck’s mother filed an incompetency petition involving her son in the Mecklenburg County courts, court records show.
    — Joe Marusak and Michael Gordon, charlotteobserver, 9 Mar. 2018
  • Charlotte lawyer Elizabeth Dantism, who records show is involved in the incompetency petition filing, declined to comment when reached by the Observer.
    — Joe Marusak and Maria David, charlotteobserver, 8 Mar. 2018

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