All 22 Uses of
competent
in
Arrowsmith
- Do you feel competent, huh, to attack the dogmas of immunology?†
Chpt 6 *
- And from a scientific standpoint, don't overlook the fact that the impression of properly remunerated competence which you make on a patient is of just as much importance, in these days of the new psychology, as the drugs you get into him or the operations he lets you get away with.†
Chpt 8
- His examination papers were competent but, save in bacteriology and internal medicine, they were sketchy.†
Chpt 8
- Why, they fired you for general incompetence!†
Chpt 12
- But now that you've had your lesson— Do you think you'd be competent to teach Practical Hygiene in Edtooth University?†
Chpt 12
- In the enormous staff dining-room Gottlieb found scores of competent young chemists and biologists who treated him with reverence.†
Chpt 13
- Until he should open a certified and recognizable office, most of the village did not regard him as a competent physician but as "that son-in-law of Andy Tozer's.†
Chpt 14
- "Marty" he said, "do you feel competent to run this Department?"†
Chpt 22
- He wondered at the presence of Martin, found him human, told him he was human, and did his rather competent best to catch up on the cocktails.†
Chpt 22
- With the other women of the Group Leora was never so intimate as with Clara Tredgold, but they liked her, the more because she was a heretic whose vices, her smoking, her indolence, her relish of competent profanity, disturbed Mrs. Pickerbaugh and Mrs. Irving Watters.†
Chpt 22
- I haven't any doubt I can give you the full appointment later—if we find you're competent and popular.†
Chpt 23
- Martin answered neither wisely nor competently: "Irve, sweetheart, you can go straight to hell!"†
Chpt 24
- One of the papers had an innocent squib: Probably a certain amount of hypocrisy is inevitable in us sinful human critters, but when a public official tries to pose as a saint while indulging in every vice, and tries to cover up his gross ignorance and incompetence by pulling political wires, and makes a holy show of himself by not even doing a first-class job of wirepulling, then even the cussedest of us old scoundrels begins to holler for the meat-ax.†
Chpt 24
- Then for a year with each day longer than a sleepless night, yet the whole year speeding without events or seasons or eagerness, Martin was a faithful mechanic in that most competent, most clean and brisk and visionless medical factory, the Rouncefield Clinic.†
Chpt 25
- She rose to shake hands—a firm, competent grasp—and to cry in her glorious contralto, "Dr.†
Chpt 26
- He kissed her, very competently, and raved, "God, woman, I've got it!†
Chpt 28
- Joust, the vulgar but competent bio-physicist, lacking the affection which kept Martin and Terry from reproaching the old man, told Gottlieb that he was a "rotten Director and ought to quit," and was straightway discharged and replaced by a muffin.†
Chpt 30
- And his boss, this fellow Gottlieb, he was fired from the University of Winnemac for incompetence!†
Chpt 34
- When he took up diffusion problems, he began to develop his own apparatus, and whether it was from inborn ingenuity or merely from a fury of labor, he was so competent that he won from Terry the almost overwhelming praise: "Why, that's not so darn' bad, Slim!"†
Chpt 36
- She knew too many men who were witty and well-bred, ivory smooth and competent to help her spend the four or five million dollars with which she was burdened.†
Chpt 37
- This was Latham Ireland, an achingly well-dressed man of fifty, a competent lawyer who was fond of standing in front of fireplaces and being quietly clever.†
Chpt 37
- From the car, jolly and competent in tweeds, stepped Joyce.†
Chpt 40
Definition:
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(competent) capable (able to do something in a generally satisfactory manner) -- sometimes specifically to have legal capability