Sample Sentences for
competent
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    She is competent on both violin and piano.
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    For this, he was tolerated, if not endorsed as the competent painter he was.  (source)
    competent = capable
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    But everybody knows the Government's not that competent.  (source)
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    It was nice to be the competent one for a change.  (source)
    competent = sufficiently capable
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    She tries to shoot me and it's immediately evident that she's incompetent with a bow.  (source)
    incompetent = not sufficiently capable
    standard prefix: The prefix "in-" in incompetent means not and reverses the meaning of competent. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
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    Several months ago he had argued before her court, bumbling to the point of incompetence.  (source)
    incompetence = not being capable of doing a sufficient job
    standard prefix: The prefix "in-" in incompetence means not and reverses the meaning of competence. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
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    Dr. Cruz radiated competence, and the Clanica Santa Maraa, the modern hospital in Puntarenas, was spotless and efficient.  (source)
    competence = ability
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    Meanwhile, the judge sent George to Bryce Hospital in Tuscaloosa for a competency examination.  (source)
    competency = legal capability
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    Mammy said that before he left with Noor to join the jihad against the Soviets, back in 1980, it was Ahmad who had dutifully and competently minded these things.  (source)
    competently = in a capable manner
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    Draw lines of crime, of incompetency, of vice, as tightly and uncompromisingly as you will, for these things must be proscribed; but a color-line not only does not accomplish this purpose, but thwarts it.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "in-" in incompetency means not and reverses the meaning of competency. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
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    What he would have asked her he did not say, and instead of encouraging him she remained incompetently silent.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "in-" in incompetently means not and reverses the meaning of competently. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
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    It was mighty dark out there, black as ink. 'd take somebody mighty used to the dark to make a competent witness…  (source)
    competent = sufficiently capable
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    "Humans reek," Bob replies. "They just don't notice because they have incompetent noses."  (source)
    incompetent = bad (not sufficiently capable)
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The instruments of transfer were drawn out: St. John, Diana, Mary, and I, each became possessed of a competency.  (source)
competency = legal capability
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