incompetentin‧com‧pe‧tent /ɪnˈkɒmpɪtənt $ -ˈkɑːm-/ adjective 
Examples
an incompetent manager weak incompetent leadership—incompetent noun [countable]—incompetently adverb
ExamplesEXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
Thesaurus- Incompetent teachers should be fired.
- Legislators are planning a new bill that will protect patients from incompetent doctors.
- Price was found mentally incompetent to stand trial.
- Some drivers are just plain incompetent.
- This government is totally incompetent.
- A Limba teacher is too often believed incompetent by his Susu or Koranko students until he proves otherwise.
- But the union representing librarians countered that the culprits were incompetent management and expensive technology.
- I was afraid my boss would discover that I was completely incompetent and justly fire me.
- It made her feel she had been incompetent in handling her affairs, and she didn't like that.
- Mr Major was being attacked by Labour as innately incompetent to lead.
- Other hazards lurk around every corner like people jumping from bridges, swimming in dangerous areas, and incompetent boat handlers.
- The parents claimed the administration and the teachers were incompetent.
Longman Language Activatorvery bad at doing something► terrible/awful/hopeless
Collocations also useless British very bad at doing something, or doing something very badly: · Poor Daniel. He loves football but he's a terrible player.· She'll never pass the exam -- she's an awful student.· Make sure you bring a map -- Erin has a hopeless sense of direction.terrible/awful/hopeless at: · My brother's a computer genius but he's useless at everything else.terrible/awful/hopeless at doing something: · The manager made John a barman as he was obviously hopeless at waiting on tables.
► lousy especially spoken very bad at doing something: · I'm such a lousy cook that I usually eat out.lousy at: · I was lousy at biology in school.
► pathetic use this about someone who is so bad at doing something that you have no respect for them: · She's clever, but as a teacher she's pathetic.· I can't believe we wasted our money on that pathetic comedian last night.
► incompetent use this about someone who cannot do their job at all and should not be doing it: · This government is totally incompetent.· Legislators are planning a new bill that will protect patients from incompetent doctors.
► can't do something to save your life informal to be very bad at something even though you would like to be able to do it properly: can't draw/paint/cook/act etc to save your life: · Adrian can't draw to save his life.· You don't expect me to take part in the play, do you? I can't act to save my life.· The truth is I couldn't write poetry to save my life.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB► as
not having the ability or skill to do a job properly OPP competent: · An adoring right-wing press gave him his platform to denounce 15,000 teachers as incompetent.· Or are they as incompetent as that across the whole waterfront?· It would be fair to sack the employee as incompetent or for being dishonest.
an incompetent manager weak incompetent leadership—incompetent noun [countable]—incompetently adverb