Meanings of laughably inadequate in English

The funds of the Board were at the first laughably inadequate.

Was there anything she could say that wasn't laughably inadequate?

Applied to them, 'smart' was a laughably inadequate term; they were worse than fast; they were frankly vicious.

At the end of the marina we hopped a chain-link fence-securitywas laughably inadequate-andentered the museum park.

Of course he had always heard this from those who had been there and returned, but now the words seemed laughably inadequate.

But when he studied the moiling gap into nothingness turning ponderously like a whirlpool on its side, the pile seemed laughably inadequate.

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