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incompetence [in′käm·pəd·əns] (forensic science) Inability to function within the law, as the incompetence of an individual to drive when under the influence of alcohol. (medicine) Insufficiency or inadequacy in performing natural functions. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Some have felt that these blundering lives are due to the inconvenient indefiniteness with which the Supreme Power has fashioned the natures of women: if there were one level of feminine incompetence as strict as the ability to count three and no more, the social lot of women might be treated with scientific certitude. you're dismissed, sir, for incompetence and cowardice, and if you're not off the premises in three minutes it'll be the worse for you At such times as this, apprehending the grounds of her refusal to be her modest sense of incompetence in matters social and polite, he would say that she was wonderfully well-informed and versatile--which was certainly true, her natural quickness, and her admiration for him, having led her to pick up his vocabulary, his accent, and fragments of his knowledge, to a surprising extent. |
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