Adjective : As an administrator, he is simply incapable. From Dictionary.com.
There was only one way out of it — I must be incapably drunk. From Wordnik.com. [Prester John] Reference
It was late before they separated; the man Gray was incapably drunk. From Wordnik.com. [The Body-Snatcher] Reference
We concluded that it was pretty close to 100% incidence in which alcohol had been taken (though people were not (necessarily!) incapably drunk). From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-11-01] Reference
On the Social Security thing, I was, and am, totally with Obama, in that I felt that Krugman was basically demanding that Obama concede he would be utterly incapably of controlling the debate as President if he dared deviate from the Democratic Social Security Speech Code. From Wordnik.com. [Obama Campaign Denies Collecting "Oppo Research" On Progressive Bloggers] Reference
The object of what we commonly call education -- that education in which man intervenes and which I shall distinguish as artificial education -- is to make good these defects in Nature's methods; to prepare the child to receive Nature's education, neither incapably nor ignorantly, nor with wilful disobedience; and to understand the preliminary symptoms of her displeasure, without waiting for the box on the ear. From Wordnik.com. [The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886] Reference
They had broken through Namur, so incapably defended. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Great War, Volume I (of 8) Introductions; Special Articles; Causes of War; Diplomatic and State Papers] Reference
The unicorns are incapably translated wild oxen, and the dragons … do you mean the leviathan, which is a crocodile?. From Wordnik.com. [Pharyngula] Reference
A quarter of the quantity would have made a clean-living man incapably drunk, but it had only made Marsden's eyes bright. From Wordnik.com. [Widdershins] Reference
Mama Corleone turned a blind eye towards her husband's business, and Kay was incapably of doing that, so Michael had to lie. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Posts Across MetaFilter] Reference
The three were all Christians but their very Christianity meant that they were incapably of communicating with each other because they each regarded the others as heretics. From Wordnik.com. [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference
Pushbutton Phone Telecom Chocolate 805 – Brown ACF Chocolate Brown ACF 805 Pushbutton Phone – Telecom Alas, the unaccountable ACF incapably dropped thanks to that smug. From Wordnik.com. [Planet-x.com.au » Chocolate Brown ACF Phone Telecom Chocolate 805 – Brown] Reference
Above that level, a public library that is not efficient is either dishonestly or incapably organised or managed, or it is serving too large a district and needs duplication, or it is trying to do too much. From Wordnik.com. [An Englishman Looks at the World] Reference
Mrs. Coolahan had probably assumed that either Julia was incapably drunk, or had been dismissed without benefit of clergy; at all events she had recognised that diplomatically it was correct to change the conversation. From Wordnik.com. [All on the Irish Shore Irish Sketches] Reference
The object of what we commonly call education -- that education in which man intervenes and which I shall distinguish as artificial education -- is to make good these defects in Nature's methods; to prepare the child to receive Nature's education, neither incapably nor ignorantly, nor with wilful disobedience; and to understand the preliminary symptoms of her pleasure, without waiting for the box on the ear. From Wordnik.com. [Science & Education] Reference
A Freelander incapably drunk is one of the rarest phenomena. From Wordnik.com. [Freeland A Social Anticipation] Reference
“What a hardened rogue you are!” thought Dr. Upround; “how feebly and incapably I must have put it!. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Anerley] Reference
Nature’s education, neither incapably nor ignorantly, nor with wilful disobedience; and to understand the preliminary symptoms of her pleasure, without waiting for the box on the ear. From Wordnik.com. [Autobiography and Selected Essays] Reference
264. incapably of Intenfion, and therefore of Com - parifon, - rr -- r - .201, 202. From Wordnik.com. [Hermes;] Reference
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