Synonyms:
incompetent, incompetent_person
Meaning: someone who is not competent to take effective action
Usage examples
When I discharged an incompetent captain, they said I had beaten him to a pulp.
I couldn't teach' (teaching, like mauve, is the refuge of the incompetent); 'and I don't, if possible, want to sell bonnets.'
The pay-roll of the opposition was filled with incompetent political hacks, that had been fastened upon the management by men of influence.
But Michael VI. was grown aged and incompetent, and the empire was full of ambitious generals, who would not tolerate a dotard on the throne.
She was a very clever teacher and a very incompetent business woman, so that her small school, of excellent standing and repute, proved difficult to finance.
His experience had taught him that, however short the plunder might fall of their legitimate expectations, no gang in possession of the Presidential Palace would be so incompetent as to suffer itself to be baffled by the want of a pretext.