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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 Michaelis, Emilie

They were not uniform, the breeches were bad, bellies deficiently covered, and they carried considerable kemp.

From Practical Angora Goat Raising by

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 Rudd, John

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 Willson, Marcius