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• a  lacking the requisite qualities or resources to meet a task
  inadequate training
  the staff was inadequate
• s  not sufficient to meet a need
  an inadequate income

• V-22 pilots like Marine Lieutenant Colonel Anthony "Buddy" Bianca know their aircraft is heading off to war with inadequate firepower.
• It is inadequate to say to the people who believed in me that I am sorry, as it is inadequate to say to the people who love me that I am sorry.
• The Maryland student paper was not sad to see him go: Tatum's tenure "was an era in which an inadequate stadium became ultra-adequate, and an inadequate library became more .

• unequal
• poor
• short

• adequate

News & Articles

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• Affinity nurses seek delay on electronic records
  Affinity union: Inadequate training, short staffing will compromise patient safety
  June 19, 2013 - The Canton Repository
• Study: Most Pa. colleges poorly prepare teachers
  Findings show new teachers have inadequate content knowledge, classroom management skills. Students attending college to earn a teaching degree are trained by "an industry of mediocrity" that churns out first-year teachers with inadequate content knowledge and classroom management skills, according to a new study.        
  June 18, 2013 - The Morning Call
• Closing arguments held in public defense trial
  A lawyer is asking a federal judge to find that the public defense systems in two Skagit County cities are inadequate, saying "a warm body with a law degree doesn't cut it" when it comes to providing legal representation to poor defendants.
  June 18, 2013 - Seattle Times

Quotes

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• Barack Obama in Vancouver Sun
  We've all seen what happens when there's inadequate oversight and insufficient transparency on Wall Street,he added. "The reforms making their way through Congress will hold Wall Street accountable so we can help prevent another financial...
• John Edwards in The Wenatchee World Online
  It is inadequate to say to the people who believed in me that I am sorry, as it is inadequate to say to the people who love me that I am sorry,Edwards said. "In the course of several campaigns, I started to believe that I was special and...
• Richard Shelby in FOXNews
  In my judgment, it would be foolish to waste massive sums of taxpayer funds testing an idea that has been hastily crafted and may actually cause the government to revert to an inadequate strategy of ad hoc bailouts,Shelby said.