The temporary camps were inadequately equipped. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
A U.S. study looked at men who were employed "inadequately" - they had involuntary part-time jobs - and found that they were more depressed than were fully employed people. From Wordnik.com. [Newswise: Latest News] Reference
I say "inadequately" because what the word really refers to is the feeling aspect of consciousness. From Wordnik.com. [Swami Kriyananda: The Real Issue: Reconciling Science With Experience] Reference
Mr Nxesi said the teachers felt the main issue of the reinstatement of dismissed teachers had been "inadequately" addressed by the Department of Education and Training. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
And 3 per cent of local authority children's services were performing "inadequately" when it came to keeping children safe. From Wordnik.com. [Latest News Breaking News and Current News from the UK and World Telegraph] Reference
The Social Democrats said last week Necas reacted "inadequately" to allegations of wrongdoings at the Environment Ministry. From Wordnik.com. [BusinessWeek.com -- Top News] Reference
No inadequately housed, no sick without hope of adequate medicine?. From Wordnik.com. [Adaptation] Reference
A man with such gifts as his is inadequately described as fortunate. From Wordnik.com. [The Beetle] Reference
The men were without instruction, and inadequately armed and equipped. From Wordnik.com. [Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War] Reference
When the rain sets in I am inadequately dressed and miles from my tent. From Wordnik.com. [Tim Dowling: Wet, wet… And wet] Reference
The laws are inadequately administered, and crime has been rampant and unpunished. From Wordnik.com. [The American Missionary — Volume 52, No. 1, March, 1898] Reference
Among them: inadequately trained pilots and a series of incidents and near accidents. From Wordnik.com. [Seeing No Evil] Reference
That not only wastes money but might also lead to inadequately treated health problems. From Wordnik.com. [Homeopathic remedies can cause confusion] Reference
He is cut off from the interior, and is quite inadequately provided with water transport. From Wordnik.com. [Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan] Reference
I am concerned that the information is inadequately vetted and people may die or go to prison. From Wordnik.com. [Regina Weinreich: Lawrence Wright's New Journalism: "My Trip to Al-Qaeda" and "The Human Scale"] Reference
Thus, embryos that are inadequately developing can be more readily identified -- and not transferred. From Wordnik.com. [The Infertility Challenge] Reference
There's a true Cameronism: he deals in ideas lightly espoused, inadequately examined and easily discarded. From Wordnik.com. [What is Cameronism? Part one] Reference
Red Cross, sent clothing and nourishing food to the inadequately equipped and poorly fed soldiers in the field. From Wordnik.com. [Susan B. Anthony Rebel, Crusader, Humanitarian] Reference
When it stops receding and begins to move forward again - however slowly or inadequately - the recession is over. From Wordnik.com. [Richard (RJ) Eskow: The Recession's Over. The Emergency Isn't] Reference
Judith needed the small brass lamp at the hearthstone, and a tallow candle rather inadequately lit the supper-table. From Wordnik.com. [Judith of the Cumberlands] Reference
To say that Forrest's enigmatic utterances filled me with excitement, very inadequately expresses the state of my mind. From Wordnik.com. [The Motor Pirate] Reference
The Philippine interior minister has admitted the SWAT team that handled the case was inadequately trained and equipped. From Wordnik.com. [Philippines Hostage Crisis Survivors Return to Hong Kong] Reference
California was known only as a region of placer-digging, and its agricultural capacities were very inadequately comprehended. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867] Reference
And its banking system and financial markets are poorly developed, inadequately regulated and wantonly manipulated by the elite. From Wordnik.com. [Starting To Feel The Pinch] Reference
But criminal investigations are conducted by magistrates, and they are too few and inadequately trained to perform this function. From Wordnik.com. [The Iraq Study Group Report] Reference
And none the less, recurring war has invariably found the United States inadequately prepared for the defense of its own territory. From Wordnik.com. [The Armed Forces Officer Department of the Army Pamphlet 600-2] Reference
We urge the Senate to move their bill quickly so as not to leave American consumers inadequately protected from unsafe products. From Wordnik.com. [The CPSC's quorum to expire—again] Reference
Thus equipped, they started on their quest, and though very inadequately armed they both felt heartened by the presence of the other. From Wordnik.com. [Frontier Boys in Frisco] Reference
As might have been expected, the ambitious youth soon made the painful discovery that he was very inadequately equipped for his journey. From Wordnik.com. [From Slave to College President Being the Life Story of Booker T. Washington] Reference
The brief physical touch had even given him the feeling of belonging shared by n'ruhar -- what English inadequately referred to as clanmates. From Wordnik.com. [Fearful Symmetry A Terran Empire novel] Reference
But his merits were soon eclipsed by the evils produced by his custom of extolling liberal patrons and satirising those who gave inadequately. From Wordnik.com. [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference
They are even more essential to the gunners than to the other branches of the service, and they are in this respect most inadequately supplied. From Wordnik.com. [With the Naval Brigade in Natal (1899-1900) Journal of Active Service] Reference
Some types of injury to the hip, as described in the Hippocratic writings, were certainly otherwise quite inadequately known until described by Sir. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference
B----, where she doubtless considered, and not without reason, that her talents and exertions were inadequately compensated by a salary of ten thousand florins. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847] Reference
I need full command of what powers of speech I possess, disturbed health so threatens to interfere with them that I fear I shall very inadequately express myself. From Wordnik.com. [The Contemporary Review, January 1883 Vol 43, No. 1] Reference
Of the homages in verse, perhaps the most touching is the beautiful poem by Signor Ocarini, the charm of which we fear is but inadequately rendered in our halting translation. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 29, 1914] Reference
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