[
UK
/ɪnsəfˈɪʃəntli/
]
[ US /ˌɪnsəˈfɪʃəntɫi/ ]
[ US /ˌɪnsəˈfɪʃəntɫi/ ]
ADVERB
-
to an insufficient degree
he was insufficiently prepared
How To Use insufficiently In A Sentence
- Apparently, the student's confidence had been shaken after she was dropped from a promotional film for being insufficiently bootylicious. Times, Sunday Times
- Few of the troupe's current performers are up to their assignments, being too young, too old, physically ill-favored, or simply insufficiently gifted - but every last one of them reflects the company's admirable governing ideas.
- In the meantime, if we are to avoid the real harm that over-exposure to the sun can cause, we have little choice but to select among sunscreen formulations — all of which contain insufficiently tested ingredients — hoping that whatever we do is better than the burn. Environmental Defense Fund: Burning Questions - Are Sunscreens Containing Nanomaterials Safe?
- While his idiosyncrasies of style are routinely toned down, certain features of Spanish are insufficiently reworked. The Times Literary Supplement
- They are the ones who made a poor decision based on insufficiently verified claims.
- In an appearance in Rock Hill, S.C., Mr. Gingrich said Republicans can't defeat President Barack Obama with a candidate like Mr. Romney, whom he called insufficiently conservative. Candidates Brace for Brawl in South Carolina
- Bacon not only despised the syllogism, but undervalued mathematics, presumably as insufficiently experimental. He was virulently hostile to Aristotle, but thought very highly of Democritus.
- I find the comment by Mike of Vermont to be a typical response from an insufficiently catechized & most likely, cradle Catholic. The State of Connecticut attacks the Catholic Church
- His generalisation that two of the germ-layers give rise exclusively or almost exclusively to one kind of tissue excited great interest at the time, and gave the direction to histogenetic research for quite a number of years, though in the end it turned out to be insufficiently founded. Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
- While his idiosyncrasies of style are routinely toned down, certain features of Spanish are insufficiently reworked. The Times Literary Supplement