All 6 Uses of
competent
in
Gone with the Wind
- There had always been friends, neighbors, the competent hands of willing slaves.†
Chpt 3.21
- He did them silently, patiently and competently.†
Chpt 3.30 *
- He listened to her moans about lost customers and bad debts, the swindling ways of Mr. Johnson and the incompetency of Hugh.†
Chpt 4.38
- Everybody in Atlanta who is smart is busy with his own affairs and the others are so incompetent and—†
Chpt 4.41
- Hugh was so incompetent, for all that he tried so hard.†
Chpt 4.41
- They'll simply suffer in proud and incompetent silence.†
Chpt 4.43
Definition:
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(competent) capable (able to do something in a generally satisfactory manner) -- sometimes specifically to have legal capability