Antonyms for incumbent onin·cum·bent on

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1. incumbent on(p)adjective

   morally binding or necessary

   "it is incumbent on me to attend"

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1. Chief Huffman:

   The lack of justice for families who have had family members murdered is completely unacceptable, and it's incumbent on us to make sure that we're doing everything we can to solve those cases.

2. Baruch Spinoza:

   To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.

3. Martin Dempsey:

   It will be incumbent on both of us to make sure that we provide the kind of reassurances that the state of Israel has always counted on us to provide. But we are going to have to do the same thing with the Gulf allies.

4. Ben Rhodes:

   I have been in the room with Vladimir Putin many times when I was working for President Obama. And whataboutism is always a characteristic of these summit meetings, that whataboutism is meant to engender cynicism, that nothing really matters, it's not worth even challenging this, that everybody's just as corrupt as everybody else. And I think it's incumbent on President Joe Biden to draw the clear distinctions between what America stands for in the world and what Vladimir Putin has been up to for the better part of over two decades now.

5. Director Russ Vought:

   Americans should be thrilled that Kari Lake has committed to declare an invasion on Day 1 in office, with a Biden administration committed to an open border, it’s incumbent on border governors to protect their people.

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