as in poorly
in an unsatisfactory way
she did the job quickly, but inadequately
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Recent Examples of inadequately
Each said the department's practices are inadequately protecting students.
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Danielle Duclos, jsonline.com, 17 Oct. 2025
Fueling your body inadequately will leave you feeling dissatisfied and undernourished.
—Jamie Johnson, Verywell Health, 10 Oct. 2025
Decades of underfunding and under-research mean women are still diagnosed late, treated inadequately, and left to manage conditions that could have been prevented or better addressed.
—Maria Shriver, Time, 9 Oct. 2025
For most of the nearly 20% of kindergartners who haven’t had their full schedule of shots, their families have never requested an exemption; the children are simply inadequately immunized.
—Jason Kane, NBC news, 15 Sep. 2025
Inspectors saw an employee inadequately reheating veggie meat.
—Sacbee.com, 29 Aug. 2025
If soils have been dry or inadequately irrigated, consider harvesting nearly ripe fruit before rainstorm events to avoid cracking.
—Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 18 Aug. 2025
Kennedy has long called for an investigation into childhood shots, saying they have been inadequately studied.
—Nathaniel Weixel, The Hill, 14 Aug. 2025
Before the advent of electronic health records (EHRs), these encounters were often inadequately documented.
—Sameer Ather, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for inadequately
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That seems to bode poorly for stopping Saquon Barkley and the Eagles’ ground game.—
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Then came a reportedly pleasant but poorly timed interaction — one that now rests in Tepper and Panthers lore.—
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How do the Chiefs fall behind that badly in any passing statistic when Patrick Mahomes is the quarterback throwing the football?—
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The area was badly burned, but still Simpson noticed green sprouts peeking out of the ashy soil and from the branches of trees that the average passerby might assume were dead.—
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And it’s been replaced by the grim reality that this team is one bad-looking MRI away from downright irrelevance.—
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Pull leftovers that still need to be eaten to the front, along with any foods that are going to go bad soon.—
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“Inadequately.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inadequately. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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