Inadequate

//ɪnˈædəkwɪt//

"Inadequate" in a Sentence (17 examples)

The road is inadequate for the amount of traffic which it carries.

This complex situation arose because signals from the environment itself can be inadequate.

I felt inadequate to the task.

The chief pronounced that the technique was inadequate.

Perception is based, to a very large extent, on conceptual models - which are always inadequate, often incomplete and sometimes profoundly wrong.

Our school facilities are inadequate for foreign students.

The search function is inadequate.

Nutrition is inadequate in some poor areas.

That's woefully inadequate.

From a walk in the park it turned into a descent into maelstrom followed by a dwindling spiral of inadequate resources and insufficient time.

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inadequate representation

I had not yet seen Mrs. Kennedy. I wondered with what inadequate words I could try to console her.

In a convulsion that has caught many in Brazil and beyond by surprise, waves of protesters denounced their leaders for dedicating so many resources to cultivating Brazil’s global image by building stadiums for international events, when basic services like education and health care remain woefully inadequate.

By the 21st century, the clearly inadequate facilities needed to be replaced, so the area was rebuilt and modernised between 2009-13 as part of regeneration efforts focused upon the wider area.

“Russia is a terrorist country whose leader is an inadequate person”. Putin's failings are evident to the “entire world”, he said.

Thus, at some critical level of unemployment, “the unemployed” becomes a negative reference group of inadequates, the hardcore unemployed […]

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