imperfectly
Adverb
Meaning
in an imperfect or faulty way
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The lobe was imperfectly developed
Miss Bennet would not play at all amiss if she practiced more
And the question we are facing, imperfectly, is, “Are we the Last Man clinging to life like a barnacle in a violent sea or something greater; something with vitality, possessed with the spark of the creative, or even the divine?”
An individual may effectually, but imperfectly, "sell" his vote on a particular issue to, in return, secure votes from other individuals on behalf of legislation he prefers (Buchanan and Tullock 1962 ).
As it was, it took the United States until the 1960s to tackle more fully, and then imperfectly, the racial inequities of the 1860s – and that was with the reconstruction forced by total war.
During both the economic meltdown in 2008 and the Ebola crisis of 2014, the United States assumed the role of global coordinator of responses — sometimes imperfectly, but with the acceptance and gratitude of its allies and even its foes.