incompetently

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adverb

In an incompetent manner.

Similar
displaying incompetence
Opposite
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Meanings

adverbincompetently (comparative more incompetently, superlative most incompetently)

comparative more incompetently · superlative most incompetently

  1. In an incompetent manner.
    1 more example

    He’s like more successful but equally morally abhorrent right-wing undercover operative James O’Keefe’s non-union Mexican equivalent, a dunce whose one move involves incompetently attempting to frame figures of seemingly unimpeachable moral integrity, like Robert Mueller or good old Mayor Pete, as deviant sex criminals like Wohl’s God Donald Trump by unsuccessfully trying to get people to come forward with bogus sexual assault allegations.

    2019 May 1, Nathan Rabin, “My World of Flops Get a Load of This Maroon Case File #121/My Year of Flops # 18 Jacob Wohl”, in Nathan Rabin's Happy Place

Synonyms & antonyms

adverbin an incompetent manner

Similar
displaying incompetence
Opposite

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

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APA

incompetently. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/incompetently

MLA

“incompetently.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/incompetently. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “incompetently,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/incompetently.

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