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Meanings of totally inadequate in English

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Usage of totally inadequate in English
1
A three-piece anchor is totally inadequate if the individual components are unreliable.
Climbing Magazine
2
Although this initiative has delivered some debt reduction, it has been totally inadequate.
The Irish Times
3
By the time Stephan Myburgh had finished his innings it looked totally inadequate.
The Guardian
4
The ventilation system was totally inadequate and the air turned stale very quickly.
Red inferno: 1945
5
It was totally inadequate, and not enough could be expected from the country.
The Vigilance Committee of 1856
6
She'd started to cry, and like always, he felt bad and totally inadequate.
See Jane Score
7
The Irish Cancer Society criticised the 7p increase as totally inadequate.
The Irish Times
8
For some things color is a necessity; and marble would be totally inadequate.
A Hero and Some Other Folks
9
THE brief two sentence statement from Adare Printing Group last week was totally inadequate.
The Irish Times
10
He is then carried to medical facilities on the beach which are totally inadequate.
Radio NZ
11
They will prove totally inadequate; may perhaps be positively mischievous.
Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs, Vol. 1
12
George did so, throwing the totally inadequate tiny bolt home.
Drood: a novel
13
The woman seemed to me totally inadequate to her grief.
Travels With My Aunt
14
It was a miserable and totally inadequate price, but Edward could get no more.
Biographies of Working Men
15
The bins provided for rubbish disposal by families at busy weekends are totally inadequate.
The Irish Times
16
The simplicity which was adequate in the one case becomes totally inadequate in the other.
The Principles of Success in Literature
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Totally inadequate through the time
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Ireland
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United States of America
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United Kingdom
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