14 example sentences using inadequate.
Inadequate used in a sentence
Inadequate in a sentence as an adjective
They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate.
My biggest impression was that the Bay Area wants to be extremely wealthy, but feels slightly inadequate about it.
They cost a lot and are an easily worn, thus making them perfect for their favorite hobby: making other women feel inadequate.
Are there any complex relationships that become hard to follow because of an inadequate level of abstraction?
"best freight rail infrastructure in the world" and "completely inadequate rail infrastructure" are, sadly, not mutually exclusive.
It must be incredibly hard to work under the pressure of 100,000 derisive hackers that will use every opportunity to point out why he is inadequate.
It's comforting to think that there is a highly trained law enforcement group that can intercede when a local department is incompetent or inadequate, and the realization that the FBI can be just as bad or even worse than local law enforcement is disheartening.
As the "open source" industry matured it perfected its model of a perpetually incomplete / inadequate free software OS as a source of inspiration to enthusiastic youngsters, realized in practioce as a perpetually freedom-denying set of proprietary OS products.
If an important security fix happens in a version that also contains a breaking change for your app — you still need to adjust your app to get the fix, right?SemVer is woefully inadequate as a scheme that determines compatibility between two pieces of code — even a textual changelog is better.
RelayRides and AirBnbB business models rely in part on the savings from inadequate insurance coverage, where individuals are suckered into taking on commercial risks while still carrying only individual insurance and having unlimited personal liability.
Multi-AZ ELB instances took too long to notice EBS was broken and then hit a bug and didn't fail over properly anyway[ELB users get no refund, which seems harsh]For those keeping score, that's 1 human error, 2 dependency chains, 3 design flaws, 3 instances of inadequate monitoring, and 5 brand-new internal bugs.
" Groupon's internal controls are inadequate to make their self-reported numbers credible:"It is absolutely ludicrous to think that Groupon is anywhere close to having an effective set of internal controls over financial reporting having done 17 acquisitions in a little over a year.
I know it wasn't about money for FB, but this is easily done a lot more damage then they would have expected and because of their inadequate handling of a single bug report, I can only feel satisfied as I think this will go down as a good case study of how not to be so dismissive with critical bugs.
We have a huge public debt, dangerously neglected infrastructure, a greatly overextended system of criminal punishment, a seeming inability to come to grips with grave environmental problems such as global warming, a very costly but inadequate educational system, unsound immigration policies, an embarrassing obesity epidemic, an excessively costly health care system, a possible rise in structural unemployment, fiscal crises in state and local governments, a screwed-up tax system, a dysfunctional patent system, and growing economic inequality that may soon create serious social tensions.
Inadequate definitions
lacking the requisite qualities or resources to meet a task; "inadequate training"; "the staff was inadequate"; "she was unequal to the task"
See also: unequal