1 Not that SHE ever understood: to this day she thinks that Aix didn't suit her, and mentions her having been sent there as proof of the incompetence of French doctors.
2 When, however, they began to pass into a new region, his old fears of stupidity and incompetence reassailed him, but this time he doggedly let them babble.
3 I have suffered a martyrdom from their incompetency and caprice.
4 He listened to her moans about lost customers and bad debts, the swindling ways of Mr. Johnson and the incompetency of Hugh.
5 If Lady Bertram, with all her incompetency and languor, could feel this, the inference of what her niece, alive and enlightened as she was, must feel, was elevating.
6 Draw lines of crime, of incompetency, of vice, as tightly and uncompromisingly as you will, for these things must be proscribed; but a color-line not only does not accomplish this purpose, but thwarts it.
7 Hugh was so incompetent, for all that he tried so hard.
8 They'll simply suffer in proud and incompetent silence.
9 It may well be conceived, what an unsavory odor such a mass must exhale; worse than an Assyrian city in the plague, when the living are incompetent to bury the departed.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 91. The Pequod Meets The Rose-Bud. 10 Therefore, though I have considered, and even attempted to obtain, every conceivable post, I find myself incompetent for them all.
11 If there are a large number, it will instantly be ascribed to bad supervision or incompetent medical treatment.
12 He's a Greek, so he says, and quite incompetent.
13 She seemed to them to be absolutely incompetent.