deficient
adjective
lacking some element or characteristic; defective.
deficiently
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a word derived from
deficient.
Example Sentences
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An appearance of spontaneity is much valued by law school teachers of advocacy, but the price of a spontaneous-seeming style is too often a deficiently crafted factual narrative.
From Slate ● Dec. 9, 2019
He was a man of scholastic training, and I had been deficiently educated.
From Autobiography of Friedrich Froebel translated and annotated by Emilie Michaelis ... and H. Keatley Moore. by Emilie Michaelis
If I have supported my prosecution with a dignity befitting its importance, I have spoken as my wishes dictated; if too deficiently, as my abilities admitted.
From Mosaics of Grecian History by Marcius Willson
It reflects little credit on the English Government that the English fleet was so deficiently supplied with ammunition, as to be unable to complete the destruction of the invaders.
From The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World: from Marathon to Waterloo by Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy
It reflects little credit on the English government that the English fleet was so deficiently supplied with ammunition as to be unable to complete the destruction of the invaders.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 10 by John Rudd
