He did the job rather incompetently. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : an incompetent candidate. ,His incompetent acting ruined the play. From Dictionary.com.
BROWN: This war has been absolutely incompetently run. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 20, 2006] Reference
TOM COBURN (R), OKLAHOMA: It was handled incompetently. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 19, 2007] Reference
It's an ugly, failing, incompetently planned occupation. From Wordnik.com. [Rob Kall: It's the Occupation, Stupid; Dem Language Lesson Desperately Needed] Reference
• Lying about and then incompetently executing two wars. From Wordnik.com. [Jeff Schweitzer: George Bush's Confession: False Contrition at its Worst] Reference
It was handled incompetently, the communication was atrocious. From Wordnik.com. [Gonzales Bombs in front of tough Senate Crowd and everywhere else] Reference
And, with respect to our own tactics, applied those incompetently. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 22, 2007] Reference
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This war has been absolutely incompetently run. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 21, 2006] Reference
As such, he handled this debacle incompetently from the beginning. From Wordnik.com. [Obama On Wright: "I Might Not Know Him As Well As I Thought"] Reference
And they have fought this war incompetently, criminally, negligently. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 9, 2006] Reference
Two incompetently prosecuted wars have undermined our deterrent power. From Wordnik.com. [Bush Has Made Us Vulnerable] Reference
It's been poorly executed in many people's eyes, incompetently executed. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 13, 2007] Reference
He went with an ill-conceived plan and an incompetently executed strategy. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 29, 2007] Reference
As a former auditor, you don't grow a program that's behaving incompetently. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 11, 2007] Reference
There was just one problem: Dukakis's campaign was incompetently run and managed. From Wordnik.com. [Paul Finkelman: Will Happy Days Be Here Again?] Reference
I acknowledge that the war is a catastrophic mistake and was incompetently managed. From Wordnik.com. [WaPo's Richard Cohen: Bush Is A "Sentimental Softie" And A "Neo-Liberal"] Reference
On the one hand, there is what appears to be a trial run incompetently, if not corruptly. From Wordnik.com. [Caught in the Crosshairs: Former Governor Don Siegelman Talks with OpEdNews, Part Two] Reference
A trillion dollar war illegally initiated and incompetently executed would discourage most. From Wordnik.com. [Jeff Schweitzer: The Lost Tribe: One Quarter Crazy] Reference
Charles Albert, who had struggled bravely but incompetently, abdicated in favour of his son. From Wordnik.com. [Charles Philip Yorke, Fourth Earl of Hardwicke, Vice-Admiral R.N. — a Memoir] Reference
They tried to control burn but just as incompetently let the controlled fire get out of control. From Wordnik.com. [Why the Meltdown Has Only Just Begun] Reference
But they thought it fit into their overall message -- the president has run this war incompetently. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 3, 2004] Reference
Nothing has helped the enemy and hurt our troops more than this unncessary and incompetently managed war. From Wordnik.com. [GOP House Leader: We'll Defeat Dems' Effort To End The War] Reference
They proceeded haphazardly and incompetently, with no coherent strategy to save him from the death penalty. From Wordnik.com. [Craig Haney: Hiding From the Death Penalty] Reference
The billions of dollars that have been spent in Iraq incompetently, the profits have gone to the contractors. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 25, 2006] Reference
Remember, McCain had to (artificially) suspend his campaign to (incompetently) deal with the financial crisis. From Wordnik.com. [Adam Blickstein: McCain Not Fit for Transition, Let Alone Presidency] Reference
He is detained and treated as you would anyone who tried to kill people with an incompetently weaponized scrotum. From Wordnik.com. [Abdulmutallab Interrogation Critics Now Insist They Deserve A Pass For Their Ignorance] Reference
With the inadvertent help of the opposition, which acted incompetently, Mr. Chávez was back in office days later. From Wordnik.com. [Dodd's 'Democrat' Tightens His Grip] Reference
Lawyers for the former NBA star are contending that the investigation was incompetently handled by law enforcement. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 29, 2004] Reference
Unless citizens can quickly grasp how incompetently our leaders address global issues the future looks bleak indeed. From Wordnik.com. [Are We Creating a Global Death Culture?] Reference
Because Iraq was being handled incompetently, the incompetence with Hurricane Katrina became a much, much bigger story. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 30, 2005] Reference
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Clearly had insufficient forces to do it and with respect to our own tactics, applied those incompetently. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 22, 2007] Reference
And that cost was the most incompetently executed war in American history, and -- and a Congress that sat by and did nothing. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 19, 2007] Reference
It's been incompetently executed and it's brought no benefit to anyone involved, including the American people and the Iraqis. From Wordnik.com. ['It's People Dying for No Benefit'] Reference
They want to call someone else 'amateur hour'? really? the most incompetently run campaign in modern memory, excepting Rudy Giuliani's?. From Wordnik.com. [Hillary Spokesperson Describes Obama Campaign As "Amateur Hour"] Reference
America will continue to endure the war so arrogantly and incompetently planned by the man historians may well call the worst Secretary of. From Wordnik.com. [Brent Budowsky: Time Person Of The Year: The Republican Party, Which Impeached Bill Clinton For Nothing, Then Gave Us This] Reference
He went with an ill-conceived plan and an incompetently executed strategy, and we should expect him to extricate our country from this before he leaves office. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 29, 2007] Reference
He went with an ill-conceived plan, and an incompetently executed strategy, and we should expect him to extricate our country from this before he leaves office. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 29, 2007] Reference
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