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inadequately

Adverb

Meaning

in an inadequate manner or to an inadequate degree

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Maybe you just can't protect people from certain specialized types of folly with any sane amount of regulation, and the correct response is to give up on the high social costs of inadequately protecting people from themselves under certain circumstances. Eliezer Yudkowsky

Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get the same thing spending an hour with you. Also, here is a green toothbrush tied in a ribbon. It expresses my feelings inadequately. E. Lockhart

the temporary camps were inadequately equipped Source: Internet

“A greater expense, however, should not be used as an excuse to inadequately offset the residual impacts, especially when considering the vast expense (and budget) of the project as a whole,” it said. Source: Internet

An internal review found it to have "established a supplements program that was experimental, inappropriate and inadequately vetted and controlled", and on 27 August 2013 the club was found guilty of bringing the game into disrepute for this reason. Source: Internet

Although the insurgents were young, poorly armed, and inadequately trained, they succeeded in seizing and holding major areas in Southern and Central provinces before they were defeated by the security forces. Source: Internet

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