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 Translation for 'incompetent person' from English to French
SYNO incompetent | incompetent person
incapable {m}incompetent person
incompétent {m}incompetent person
incapable {f}incompetent person [female]
incompétente {f}incompetent person [female]
Partial Matches
incompétent {adj}incompetent
incapable {adj} [incompétent]incompetent
personne {f}person
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personne {f} d'un âge avancéelderly person
opprimé {m}oppressed person
sensible {m}sensitive person
vaniteux {m}conceited person
doyen {m} [en âge]oldest person
agité {m} [indiscipliné]disruptive person
maladroit {m} [gaffeur]tactless person
noyé {m}drowned person
relig.
laïc {m} [aussi : laïque]
lay person
maladroit {m} [personne gauche]clumsy person
vaniteux {m}vain person
premier {m}first (person)
prétentieux {m}pretentious person
individualiste {m}solitary person
sociol.
SDF {m} [sans domicile fixe]
homeless person
exclu {m}marginalized person
personne {f} âgée [masculine et féminine]elderly person
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Usage Examples English
  • ... sometimes spelled shlemiel or shlumiel) is a Yiddish term meaning "inept/incompetent person" or "fool".
  • In this case, the Court for the first time put limits on the length of time an incompetent person may be confined.
  • The story popularized the Yiddish word "schlemiel" for a hopelessly incompetent person, a bungler.
  • In other states, such as Illinois, the rule has been expanded to prevent an interested party from testifying about communications with a minor or a legally incompetent person.
  • He added that it was not impossible for an incompetent person to run the neurological ward for over 20 years, and also serve as president of the Pan African Association of Neuro Surgergical Sciences.

  • In the 2011 publication of "Health Care Management and the Law: Principles and Applications", Donna Hammaker wrote that the Appellate Court's decision in Tarlow is one of the most recent cases to tackle the issue of medical decision making for the mentally disabled and the court logically determined that an incompetent person may make decisions that have harmful or even deadly consequences because they may not know what is in their best interest.
  • In 1985, the Supreme Court of California held that a California statute that completely prohibits the sterilization of the developmentally disabled is overbroad and unconstitutional because a mentally incompetent person has a constitutional right to sterilization if a less intrusive method of birth control is not available.
  • 070 (8/28/2007) says that it is unlawful for a felon or adjudged incompetent Person to have possession of any firearm (including concealable firearms).
  • 19. Attainment of wealth by an incompetent person, knowledge by a man of ignoble descent, a woman by undeserving person, etc. are in vain like the rainfall on a mountain.
  • Williams in upholding a 2003 District of Columbia statute that stated the conditions for authorizing a non-emergency surgical procedure on a mentally incompetent person.

  • Earl usually had a cigar in his mouth and was the most incompetent person in the comic strip; once confusing a microwave for a television set.
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