Noun, : The plan has many inadequacies.    From Dictionary.com. 

And Clyde, as instantly sensing the profoundness of his own failure, his own cowardice or inadequateness for such an occasion, as instantly yielding to a tide of submerged hate, not only for himself, but.    From Wordnik.com.  [An American Tragedy] Reference

One often hears from both younger and older citizens of Ukraine that democracy does not properly work there because of the low political culture, moral inadequateness or similar deficiencies of Kiev's political elite.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ukraine's Window of Opportunity] Reference

I deem it my duty further to observe that much of the imperfections in the returns of the last and perhaps of preceding enumerations proceeded from the inadequateness of the compensations allowed to the marshals and their assistants in taking them.    From Wordnik.com.  [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference

This can be countered by another argument that ID, by showing the inadequateness of current explanations, may help awaken the scientists from their intellectual slumber, something that often takes place given the inertia of the scientific culture and other cultures.    From Wordnik.com.  [ID controversy grows in Muslim world] Reference

Presently a strange sense of inadequateness came over him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cow Puncher] Reference

Must every bit of spittle from your mouth reference your social isolation and inadequateness?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Naples Daily News Stories] Reference

She -- perhaps McTeague as well -- felt that there was a certain inadequateness about the ceremony.    From Wordnik.com.  [McTeague] Reference

They may not point to the right mode of meeting inadequateness, but they do point to the existence and consciousness of it.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Compromise] Reference

It would not be difficult to show that their influence was wider than that of the philosopher who discerned the inadequateness of both.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2)] Reference

New ideas and new 'experiments in living' would not arise, if there were not a certain inadequateness in existing ideas and ways of living.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Compromise] Reference

Here, then, are three sources of vague and incorrect definitions: indistinctness of the object, imperfection of the organ of conception, inadequateness of the vehicle of ideas.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Federalist Papers] Reference

A very simple observation would have sufficed to make the philosophers, antecedent to Newton, feel the inadequateness of the causes they admitted to operate with such powerful effect.    From Wordnik.com.  [The System of Nature, Volume 1] Reference

I remember another, whom every muse inspired, skilful alike with the pencil and the pen, and by whom both were almost contemned for their inadequateness, in the height and scope of her aims.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume I] Reference

The acquiescence for so many centuries in the power of the great directing organisation of Western Europe, notwithstanding its intellectual inadequateness, was the decisive expression of that rejection.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2)] Reference

Greek, yet his failure to produce anything perfect in form, except a few lyrics, proves the irresistible expansion of the modern spirit, and the inadequateness of the Greek type to modern needs of activity and expression.    From Wordnik.com.  [Critical Miscellanies, Vol. 3 (of 3) Essay 2: The Death of Mr Mill - Essay 3: Mr Mill's Autobiography] Reference

Who that has stood by the grave of a precious friend has not experienced the same feeling of inadequateness in the consolation that comes from even the strongest belief in a far-off rising again of all who are in their graves?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Friendships of Jesus] Reference

When we remember the inadequateness of human language, the infirmities of our vision, and all the imperfections of mental apparatus, the wise men will not disdain even partial glimpses of a scene too vast and intricate to be comprehended in a single map.    From Wordnik.com.  [Critical Miscellanies, Vol. 1, Essay 5, Emerson] Reference

If his use of the weapon cannot be regarded as a decisive settlement of the true issues, we have to remember that he himself became aware in a very short time of its inadequateness, and proceeded to the discussion, as we shall presently see, from another side.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2)] Reference

If then you would infer anything against me, your difficulty must not be drawn from the inadequateness of our conceptions of the Divine nature, which is unavoidable on any scheme; but from the denial of Matter, of which there is not one word, directly or indirectly, in what you have now objected.    From Wordnik.com.  [Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous] Reference

The articles on Agriculture, for example, are admirable alike for the fulness and precision with which they expose the actual state of France; for the clearness with which they trace its deplorable inadequateness back to the true sources; and for the strong interest and sympathy in the subject, which they both exhibit and inspire.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2)] Reference

Almost each century after the resettlement of Europe by Charlemagne had procured some individual, or some little group, who had ventured to question this or that article of the ecclesiastical creed, to whom broken glimpses of new truth had come, and who had borne witness against the error or inconsistency or inadequateness of old ways of thinking.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2)] Reference

I stood gazing at the frowning portal with a sense of utter loneliness and desolation, -- the quick, resistless impulse that had fired me to make the journey and which, as it were, had driven me along by its own impetus, suddenly died away into a dreary consciousness of inadequateness and folly on my own part, -- and I began to reproach myself for yielding so utterly to the casual influence of one who, after all, must in a reasonable way be considered a stranger.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life Everlasting; a reality of romance] Reference

Whatever inadequateness it had to its subject, it was in point of composition the prettiest piece of prose I ever writ, and so my sister (to whom alone I read the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb] Reference

Hero-worship, and its inadequateness 189.    From Wordnik.com.  [Critical Miscellanies, Vol. I Essay 2: Carlyle] Reference

inadequateness remedial flexibly sheath.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Odd Departure | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources] Reference