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Meanings of inadequacy in English

Portuguese
deficiência
Catalan
dèficit
Spanish
pobreza

A shortage or absence of what is needed.

      deficiência
      Usage of inadequacy in English
      1
      What has happened in New Jersey underlines the inadequacy of nationwide polling.
      The Guardian
      2
      The last one is rooted in my own sense of physical inadequacy.
      The Irish Times
      3
      It advertised a certain inadequacy, an inability to produce a perfect baby.
      The Clan of the Cave Bear
      4
      Barker's achievement is to make us sense the inadequacy of this sympathy.
      The Guardian
      5
      Thus ends, in unavoidable inadequacy, the attempt to utter the unutterable things.
      Orthodoxy
      6
      Manchester United were forced to endure their own inadequacy at Stadio Olimpico.
      The Irish Times
      7
      No degree of polish in expression will compensate for inadequacy of knowledge.
      Slips of Speech : a Helpful Book for Everyone Who Aspires to Cor...
      8
      As in a nightmare, everything is a source of crippling personal inadequacy.
      The Guardian
      9
      A simple projection of dissatisfaction over a few instances of personal inadequacy?
      The Great Book of Amber
      10
      His lack of finding any evidence on her vehicle reeked of inadequacy.
      Dead air
      11
      The inadequacy of existing legislation touching citizenship and naturalization demands your consideration.
      State of the Union Addresses
      12
      On this level, I was driven by feelings of guilt and inadequacy.
      The Guardian
      13
      The inadequacy of her means would have forbidden her more comfortable accommodations.
      Leah Mordecai: A Novel
      14
      But the ethical inadequacy of Berkeley became very soon plain to me.
      The History of David Grieve
      15
      Their Marine pilots called them rattletraps, a reflection of their technological inadequacy.
      Earth strike: star carrier: book one
      16
      He flapped, glugged and sank under the inadequacy of his own argument.
      The Guardian
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      Translations for inadequacy
      Spanish
      pobreza
      Inadequacy through the time
      Inadequacy across language varieties
      United Kingdom
      Common
      United States of America
      Common