What's the difference between careless and incompetent?

Careless


Definition:

  • (a.) Free from care or anxiety. hence, cheerful; light-hearted.
  • (a.) Having no care; not taking ordinary or proper care; negligent; unconcerned; heedless; inattentive; unmindful; regardless.
  • (a.) Without thought or purpose; without due care; without attention to rule or system; unstudied; inconsiderate; spontaneous; rash; as, a careless throw; a careless expression.
  • (a.) Not receiving care; uncared for.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Careless Herbicidal aerial spray of a field for weed control and defoliation of cotton before machine picking, resulted in the contamination of an adjoining reservoir, killing large volume of fish.
  • (2) Failure to check, lack of vigilance and inattention or carelessness were the most frequently associated factors with the rest of the reports.
  • (3) If at times Van Gaal’s players let themselves down with careless concessions of possession, Carver knew his side had been reprieved when, back to goal, Wayne Rooney controlled the ball on his chest, swivelled and dinked a shot wide.
  • (4) "In this era where we see growing open-mindedness, his actions are muddle-headed and careless," said the letter, which was briefly posted to the internet before it was taken down by censors .
  • (5) Vardy has plenty of other qualities, however, and he played a key role in Leicester’s equaliser early in the second half, racing clear on the right after Wanyama’s careless header and crossing for Musa, who forced the ball past Hugo Lloris at the far post.
  • (6) His carelessness had returned the ball to City's opponents inside his own half twice in the opening quarter of an hour.
  • (7) Concerning the 16 year-old girl the authors think that medical malpractice and carelessness of the parents were involved.
  • (8) By random assignment, the nurses read one of four versions of the rape which varied in terms of whether or not the victim locked her car door (carelessness manipulation) and time of attack (5:00 p.m. or midnight).
  • (9) Like many public figures on the left, he has been far too careless with his favours.
  • (10) He claims the network’s carelessness and conduct with its Cairo-based staff resulted in harassment of al-Jazeera staff, raids on the office and eventually the detention and imprisonment of several staffers.
  • (11) As it is, the team were careless with a comfortable lead in Jamaica (but got away with it ), formidable in their movement against an outclassed Panama , and struggled to get going in the heat and altitude of their game against Honduras .
  • (12) People usually don't make silly, careless mistakes when they're motivated and working in a positive environment.
  • (13) Seventy seven percent of the exposures were seen during routine care, 28.5% were perceived as due to personal carelessness, 19.9% due to patient agitation, 33.5% as inherent to the procedure and 8.9% to abandonment of material.
  • (14) Most burns occurred in teenage boys (6) and all but 1 were the result of carelessness on the part of the burn victim.
  • (15) Blatant carelessness, misuse or improper maintenance of equipment, and intoxication are analyzed as contributory factors.
  • (16) What has happened, of course, is something entirely different – and the callously careless attitude of western governments to this has given the impression of western complicity to many (who are already steeped in a culture of conspiracy theories) in Iraq and the Middle East.
  • (17) As a German European, I am disappointed by the mixture of incapability and carelessness back home.
  • (18) The government’s response has been shamefully poor, marked by carelessness for the lives of ordinary people, and only really concerned with damage control and trying to ensure this does not affect the flow of investment,” said Edgardo Buscaglia, a leading expert in international organised crime and political corruption around the world.
  • (19) Wenger talked about his side committing "easy mistakes" and he might easily have been referring to Özil's carelessness before the goal that made it 3-1, playing a senseless pass to Mathieu Flamini, then watching Fernandinho steal in to bend a wonderful shot beyond Wojciech Szczesny.
  • (20) "From being driven, careless, impulsive, the new breed of shopper is a very careful spender.

Incompetent


Definition:

  • (a.) Not competent; wanting in adequate strength, power, capacity, means, qualifications, or the like; incapable; unable; inadequate; unfit.
  • (a.) Wanting the legal or constitutional qualifications; inadmissible; as, a person professedly wanting in religious belief is an incompetent witness in a court of law or equity; incompetent evidence.
  • (a.) Not lying within one's competency, capacity, or authorized power; not permissible.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Some women have clinically obvious cervical incompetence and may benefit from a cerclage operation, but criteria for early diagnosis are not universally agreed upon.
  • (2) First, the decrement in the maximal heart rate response to exercise (known as "chronotropic incompetence") found in the sedentary MI rat was completely reversed by endurance training.
  • (3) All but one patient had clinical evidence of pulmonary incompetence.
  • (4) Mutant polypeptides have been characterized that are competent and incompetent for association with GRP78-BiP.
  • (5) The possibility of being liable if an incompetent student becomes registered and causes harm is also discussed.
  • (6) A differentiation incompetent QM cell derivative was also isolated (QM5DI).
  • (7) Secondary valvular incompetence occurs from deep venous obstruction or increased venous distensibility (usually secondary to circulating estrogens).
  • (8) Valvular incompetence developed in 13 patients during the study period.
  • (9) This implies that degradation of sIgM does not result from the incompetence of 38C cells to polymerize.
  • (10) (vii) Two deletions within the EBNA-2 gene which rendered EBV transformation incompetent did not transactivate LMP1, whereas a transformation-competent EBNA-2 deletion mutant did transactivate LMP1.
  • (11) In a randomized placebo controlled parallel double blind study on 40 patients suffering from venous edema in chronic deep vein incompetence, the edema-reducing effect of horse chestnut seed extract vs. placebo, being the main test variable, was demonstrated by hydroplethysmography to be statistically significant.
  • (12) The etiology of acute severe mitral incompetence resulting from rupture of the chordae is presented and is illustrated by four case reports.
  • (13) Without the addition of the sRNA, the 7-8-8.5-10 particles were incompetent while the 7-8-8.5-10-RNA particles were competent in DNA packaging.
  • (14) It is the bonus culture – not high pay, recklessness or incompetence – that has polluted banking's public image.
  • (15) They shun cost-benefit analysis but soak up aid money, saying Haiti's state is incompetent and corrupt.
  • (16) Incidence of isolated mitral incompetence and combined heart injuries, valve damage mechanics, and frequent causes of blunt chest trauma are discussed.
  • (17) Among the special cases considered are: the competent adult patient who refuses treatment on religious or privacy grounds; the incompetent patient whose own wishes were never expressed, but whose family refuses treatment; the incompetent patient who expressed the wish not to be treated before becoming incompetent; and parents who refuse treatment on behalf of their child.
  • (18) Extensive research among the Afghan National Army – 68 focus groups – and US military personnel alike concluded: "One group sees the other as a bunch of violent, reckless, intrusive, arrogant, self-serving profane, infidel bullies hiding behind high technology; and the other group [the US soldiers] generally views the former as a bunch of cowardly, incompetent, obtuse, thieving, complacent, lazy, pot-smoking, treacherous, and murderous radicals.
  • (19) The device was implanted around 11 completely incompetent and seven partially incompetent valves in 18 veins of 11 sheep.
  • (20) It is clear that they are either incompetent or corrupt, and I don’t believe that they are incompetent.