Otherwise, there's little fun to be had in this marginally competent mélange of car chases and gun battles.

"Well, General, sir," he said, "despite your marginally competent pilot, you'll probably see your wife again."

There we snagged four passes for the Senate gallery, something to salvage the afternoon and prove myself marginally competent.

But they often hire people who are marginally competent because there are so few outstanding administrators available.

A marginally competent teacher may not necessarily be skilled enough to promote interest in or appreciation for math among students.

Yet without tight labor markets, business will have little incentive to invest in the training needed to bring marginally competent workers into the mainstream.

He'd expected that only from some of the marginally competent radiologists of whom Philips knew there were far too many.

Some of it is the work of marginally competent investigators.

The man was a marginally competent tactician, with a pronounced belief in his own infallibility.

Yeah, Palin looked marginally competent reading from a teleprompter in a desperately friendly crowd.