Infinitive complement

• make: The discouraged intellect may feel itself utterly incompetent to make anything at all of such concepts.

• consent: A person cannot be deemed incompetent to consent to any transaction purely on the basis that they have an intellectual impairment.

Modifies a noun

• buffoon: I have to say, the men seem to be incompetent buffoons.

• fool: Are you merely the pair of incompetent fools that you seem, or is there something more sinister behind your actions?

• bunch: They are an absolutely incompetent bunch or probable liars.

• handling: He said the Conservatives incompetent handling of the social services budget was behind the rise.

• politician: This desire for control has been undermined by inequitable trading relationships, corrupt, incompetent politicians and repressive states.

• patient: An incompetent patient refuses treatment Mrs Y is 56 years old.

Modifying Another Word

• administratively: They said the obvious things - the CSA continues to be the most administratively incompetent government agency in living memory.

• grossly: BT is, in my opinion, grossly incompetent.

• mentally: The mother of the girl was told that she was denied an account because she was " mentally incompetent.

• hopelessly: Only, they turn out to be hopelessly incompetent at that task too.

• utterly: The discouraged intellect may feel itself utterly incompetent to make anything at all of such concepts.

• technically: I operated the camera and I guarantee that you'll not see a more technically incompetent film.

Used with adjective complement

• feel: You: Is there anything else about feeling incompetent?

• become: Now once they know that this is the case they become consciously incompetent.

• look: His fear of looking incompetent in front of neighbors should get him into action.

• prove: The big institutions that own the vast majority of the shares in Railtrack have been proven incompetent once again.

• seem: They seem so incompetent it is almost tempting to believe them!

• deem: A person cannot be deemed incompetent to consent to any transaction purely on the basis that they have an intellectual impairment.