Incompetence vs Bungler - What's the difference?
incompetence | bungler |
Inability to perform; lack of competence; ineptitude.
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As nouns the difference between incompetence and bungler
is that incompetence is inability to perform; lack of competence; ineptitude while bungler is someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence.incompetence
English
Noun
(-)- ... at the head of a crew, too, chiefly made up of mongrel renegades, and castaways, and cannibals--morally enfeebled also, by the incompetence of mere unaided virtue or right-mindedness in Starbuck
- Winston did not know why Withers had been disgraced. Perhaps it was for corruption or incompetence . Perhaps Big Brother was merely getting rid of a too-popular subordinate.
- The factory where she worked was a poisonous mass of incompetence , favoritism, and sabotage.
