The insurrection, or revolution, if it may be so called, at this time consisted of a nominal central government, chiefly self-organized and self-elected, and various roving bands, probably numbering some thousands in their aggregate, of men rudely and incompetently armed, and showing little or nothing of military organization or method.
"Cuba, Old and New"
Albert Gardner Robinson
incompetently, its leaders bumbled along, not caring for the mass of the people, bestowing the people's goods on the leaders' favorites.
"The Year When Stardust Fell"
Raymond F. Jones
Think of the numbers that might be removed from the responsibility of incompetently educating!
"The Clever Woman of the Family"
Charlotte M. Yonge