Crack and Incompetent

Crack

Crack adjective - Having or showing exceptional knowledge, experience, or skill in a field of endeavor.
Usage example: known as one of the college's crack tennis players

Incompetent is an antonym for crack.

Incompetent

Incompetent adjective - Lacking qualities (as knowledge, skill, or ability) required to do a job.
Usage example: an incompetent carpenter had built the deck, and the railings were loose already

Crack is an antonym for incompetent.

Nearby Words: incompetence, incompetently

Both words in one sentence

  • Jokes about him tended to focus on his being poor, gross, completely unpopular with the rest of the cast, or all three, while the incompetent doctor jokes tapered off (though the writers do still crack one from time to time).
  • Literature / The Night Angel Trilogy Crapsack World: Cenaria is a country / city-state which is so endemically corrupt that the local crime syndicate is able to control who gets to be the King- and choose the bad King precisely because he is an incompetent, paranoid buffoon, and thus not someone who will crack down on crime.
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