All 10 Uses of
competent
in
Catch-22
- The corner location really started paying off, and I soon found myself handling more patients than I could handle competently.†
Chpt 5 *
- A day or two after the city fell, he would be back with leases on two large and luxurious apartments there, one for the officers and one for the enlisted men, both already staffed with competent, jolly cooks and maids.†
Chpt 13
- When you consider the opportunity and power He had to really do a job, and then look at the stupid, ugly little mess He made of it instead, His sheer incompetence is almost staggering.†
Chpt 18
- I've never seen so much incompetence.'†
Chpt 21
- Colonel Cathcart transferred a round glass paperweight competently from the right edge of his desk to the left edge and picked up a sharpened pencil.†
Chpt 25
- The summer offensive has petered out, thanks to the incompetent leadership with which we supply our troops, and I have a crying need for a tough, experienced, competent officer like you to help produce the memoranda upon which we rely so heavily to let people know how good we are and how much work we're turning out.†
Chpt 29
- The summer offensive has petered out, thanks to the incompetent leadership with which we supply our troops, and I have a crying need for a tough, experienced, competent officer like you to help produce the memoranda upon which we rely so heavily to let people know how good we are and how much work we're turning out.†
Chpt 29
- But first he hastily drew a tourniquet around Snowden's thigh because he could not think what else to do in those first tumultuous moments when his senses were in turmoil, when he knew he must act competently at once and feared he might go to pieces completely.†
Chpt 41
- Incompetence over Ferrara, insubordination, refusal to engage the enemy in combat when ordered to do so, and desertion.†
Chpt 42
- How could they charge me with incompetence now?†
Chpt 42
Definition:
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(competent) capable (able to do something in a generally satisfactory manner) -- sometimes specifically to have legal capability