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• n  lack of physical or intellectual ability or qualifications
• n  inability of a part or organ to function properly

• If the buffoon factor has crippled Mecham's governorship, charges of incompetence and corruption could kill it.
• This is a presidency that has wobbled between those two poles overweening arrogance and paralytic incompetence.
• Aquino's six-year presidency was marred by attempted military coups, human-rights abuses by a still-powerful army, and general incompetence.

• incompetency

• competence

News & Articles

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• Ref embarrassment in AHL Calder Cup: Missed goal leads to 22-minute period (Video)
  The second period of Game 2 in the AHL Calder Cup Final was like a parfait of officiating incompetence, each layer revealing a bigger blunder. It began with a shot by J.T. Brown of the Syracuse Crunch, which appeared to … Continue reading ?
  June 10, 2013 - Puck Daddy via Yahoo! Sports
• Alan Greenspan's Epic Incompetence: Another Shoe Drops
  If you read anything this year, read this. It is an article by Bill Black,  a former financial regulator, that provides stunning new insights into former Fed chairman Alan Greenspan?s incompetence.
  June 6, 2013 - Forbes

Quotes

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• Terry McAuliffe in Forbes
  The level of error, incompetence, and inattention which took place before the flight was sadly mirrored in many ways for many years, in how authorities, governments, and institutions dealt with the aftermath of the murder of so many innocents: in... John Major http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Major&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGvIY2_ELypZ3R74DUib1jsfB-Hng Ottawa Citizen http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.ottawacitizen.com/Saga%2Bends%2Bfamilies%2Blost%2Bloved%2Bones/3169317/story.html&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNFEb0ETPMEVUOX4nCk3D9efdqhIfQ Jun 18, 2010 50655 68333 incompetence It was gross incompetence to hoard that money when the race was bound to be so close," McAuliffe said.
• George Osborne in FOXNews
  Labour's economic incompetence means a rising cost of living for the very people they said they would help,said Osborne.