inadequate
They are responding, albeit slowly and inadequately, to public pressure.
The impact of the crash was fatal because the passengers were inadequately restrained.
Security checkpoints are inadequately staffed.
He said that some ethnic groups were inadequately represented in the government.
Their expenses have been inadequately reimbursed.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Not of good quality
am-dram
appallingly
atrocious
atrociously
awfully
awfulness
cheesy
hacky
inadequacy
inadequate
janky
meretriciously
shite
sort
tawdrily
tawdriness
tawdry
thinness
trinket
wretched

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Scarce, inadequate and not enough

Examples of inadequately

inadequately
The goals of maintaining independence and delaying functional decline in long-term care are poorly understood and inadequately researched.
The standards are, however, imprecise and inadequately regulated.
The range of questions to be broached is inadequately considered and too swiftly justified, and, above all, the range of materials is ruthlessly circumscribed.
It must be remembered, however, that many manuscript collections remain uncatalogued or inadequately catalogued.
This is clearest in terms of the application of the directives, which is still inadequately harmonized in the companies' opinion.
Much of this literature is arid, self-evident and inadequately researched.
Existing audio tools handle the increasing amount of computer audio data inadequately.
It also has to be said that themes relating to the earlier period are often inadequately digested, given the overall assessments made.
On reading the literature, one finds that this exceptionally interesting field has so far been inadequately researched.
On average, only one or two phonemes of these complex phoneme sequences were transcribed inadequately.
The metaphorical framework of battling disease links his concerns about euthanasia (which he opposes) and iatrogenic illness (which he thinks inadequately opposed).
The effects of such advice are inadequately assessed.
They contend that even more socially oriented ethnographic studies account inadequately for the complexity of the process of language learning.
The human and animal reservoir hosts acquire the infection from the ingestion of raw, inadequately cooked freshwater fish.
Reviewers unduly delay responses or inadequately address scope and content of product.
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