[
US
/ˌɪˈnædəkwətɫi/
]
[ UK /ɪnˈædɪkwətli/ ]
[ UK /ɪnˈædɪkwətli/ ]
ADVERB
-
in an inadequate manner or to an inadequate degree
the temporary camps were inadequately equipped
How To Use inadequately In A Sentence
- He stares at a strategic map of the strongpoints of the city, placing squadrons which are inadequately manned, to assault the Red Army.
- He would spend hours working out the answer to a question that the rest of us simpletons dealt with (probably inadequately) in an hour.
- Although it can be argued that breaking bad news insensitively or inadequately can lead to poor long-term adjustment for patients (18), the research to support this notion is limited.
- The shop is poorly run, inadequately stocked, with indifferent staff, but you can at least pop in and out within five minutes.
- Risk of infection is present anywhere where food is prepared unhygienically or drinking water is inadequately treated.
- Unfortunately, some policyholders were inadequately insured, thus imposing an unfair burden on all the others.
- The students still found themselves inadequately prepared by their gymnasiums for university work, and expressed their dissatisfactions by demonstrations and disorders.
- He then names the supreme good as eudaimonia , which is usually translated , though inadequately, as happiness.
- Many, like him, see students as inadequately prepared, lacking basic writing skills and foundational knowledge, constantly complaining about hard work or boredom, and expecting spoon feeding and handholding.
- Other causes of this are discharges of inadequately treated sewage from urban centres, poorly sited or malfunctioning septic tanks and run-off of fertilisers from afforestation areas.