Oh dear, she was
incompetent! She had a face like a silkworm, and the dining-room reeks of orris-root.
Both Morpheus and the bird are
incompetent witnesses; and your listener dare not attack your recital.
This land had been drained--to the huge discomfort of a colony of mosquitoes which had come to look on the place as their private property--and converted into links, which had become a sort of refuge for
incompetent golfers.
By the slave code, they are adjudged to be as
incompetent to testify against a white man, as though they were indeed a part of the brute creation.
Still her conscience was so tender that she even doubted the propriety of accepting her old wages were she really
incompetent to earn them.
But she made no such suggestion; she only stood there with a dim, though not a languid smile, and with an effect of irresponsible,
incompetent youth which was almost comically at variance with the faded facts of her person.
It might have been her bright complexion or it might have been the bold luster of her eyes (as the women considered it), that dazzled the lords of creation generally, and made them all alike
incompetent to discover her faults.