Newspapers began publishing accounts charging the Construction Division with incompetence, ineptitude, and inefficiency. It's a question of stupidity, incompetence and corruption. Grimes is aghast at Homer's laziness and incompetence. Grayson's apparent incompetence and inability to remember what was going on was carefully contrived. Apart from Mickey no one seems to be aware of the Sleuth's utter incompetence. Douhet was shocked by the army's incompetence and unpreparedness. The handling of the cases was a matter of incompetence rather than political correctness. Steuben became aware of the "administrative incompetence, graft, war profiteering" that existed. Butler was furious with Gillmore's timidity and incompetence and arrested him. They were made worse by the incompetence of the Austrian high command. Aware of his own incompetence, he resigned. This initial invasion was compromised by a combination of incompetence and severe storms. He was remarkably tolerant, seldom taking offense at criticism, opposition or even incompetence. Continued complaints about Garrett's alleged incompetence were sent to Washington. He's unintentionally comical in this incarnation displaying occasional incompetence.