competent
Definition: (adjective) having the skill and knowledge needed for a particular task; capable
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untoward
adjective
- Tending to discourage, retard, or make more difficult: adverse, disadvantageous, negative, unadvantageous, unfavorable, unsatisfactory. See
help
- Involving or undergoing chance misfortune: hapless, ill-fated, ill-starred, luckless, star-crossed, unfortunate, unhappy, unlucky. See
luck
- Not submitting to discipline or control: disorderly, fractious, indocile, intractable, lawless, obstinate, obstreperous, recalcitrant, refractory, uncontrollable, undisciplined, ungovernable, unmanageable, unruly, wild.
Idiom:
out of line. See
control, order, peace, resist
- Not in keeping with conventional mores: immodest, improper, indecent, indecorous, indelicate, naughty, unbecoming, unbefitting, unseemly.
Idiom:
out of line. See
usual
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