What's the difference between cosier and incompetent?
Cosier
Definition:
(n.) A tailor who botches his work.
Example Sentences:
(1) Have I Got News for You on BBC television and The News Quiz on Radio 4 are its obvious, much cosier, successors.
(2) The maths of stellar decline dictates that the man should now only be able to play ever cosier venues.
(3) There’s lights, temporary overlay.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest London 2012 gold medallist Hannah Cockroft says the new Olympic Stadium ‘looks different but just as nice, a bit cosier’.
(4) Persimmon says a Space4 home is 50% more energy efficient than a traditional house, and cosier to live in.
(5) The friction between Halloween Town, ruled over by Jack Skellington, and the far cosier Christmas Town, which lies outside Jack's dominion and comprehension, is for Elfman symbolic on several levels.
(6) But some critics believe Lebedev's relationship with the Russian government is cosier than he likes to make out.
(7) Line of Duty, which provoked some controversy with its on-screen violence, was up against the second half of a far cosier detective drama in ITV's Midsomer Murders, which celebrated its centenary episode with a trip to Copenhagen featuring stars of Danish dramas (Ann Eleonora Jorgensen from the The Killing and Borgen's Birgitte Hjort Sorensen).
(8) What’s wrong with moderates is that they lack militancy.” Astor was “far too worldly, too steely, too tactful to hark back with nostalgia to the cosier heyday of the late 1940s and early 1950s,” recalled John Thompson, who joined the paper as its news editor in 1962, but he regarded the years between 1948 and Suez as the Observer ’s golden age.
(9) The new archbishop will have to manage a graceful retreat from the pretentious fantasy that the Anglican communion is something like the Roman Catholic church, only nicer and cosier.
(10) The back rooms, where reading and singing groups meet, are cosier.
(11) By the end of the 1940s people were becoming seriously fed up, epitomised by the transformation of the black market spiv from a demonised figure into something altogether cosier – but it did much to ease the worst years of austerity.
(12) But critics claim that HMRC is hiding the scale of the tax gap, as it finds itself dragged into ever cosier relations with big business.
(13) And we mustn't fall into the trap of using "domestic violence" to imply a kind of cosier or lesser violence.
(14) "By stimulating billions of pounds of private-sector investment, the green deal will revolutionise the way that we keep our homes warm, making them cosier, more efficient and all at no upfront cost."
(15) M&S sells 40 styles ranging from cosy shearling to suede moccasin boasting hi-tech fabrics such as Thinsulate (which claims to makes slippers cosier) and Freshfeet which is "capable of combating the bacteria that cause odours".
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.