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incompetently

incompetently adverb: in an incompetent manner.

Adverb

incompetently (comparative more incompetently, superlative most incompetently)

  1. In an incompetent manner.
    • 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...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

Forms of incompetently

comparativemore incompetently
superlativemost incompetently

Origin of incompetently

From incompetent + -ly.

Questions about incompetently

What does incompetently mean?
Incompetently means in an incompetent manner.
What part of speech is incompetently?
Incompetently is an adverb.

Words near incompetently in the dictionary

  1. incompetence
  2. incompetences
  3. incompetencies
  4. incompetency
  5. incompetent
  6. incompetently
  7. incompetentness
  8. incompetents
  9. incompetibility
  10. incompetible
  11. incompitant

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