ill-prepared

[il-pri-paird]

adjective

1. badly or inadequately prepared or trained.

   ill-prepared job applicants; The hotel was ill-prepared for so many guests.

Example Sentences

In it, Baroness Hallett said the UK had been "ill-prepared for dealing with a catastrophic emergency, let alone the coronavirus pandemic".

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“We’re not talking about how quickly we’re going to tokenize every financial asset, and the opportunity we’re going to have to have a digital wallet and moving ETFs and other things though a digital wallet. I think that’s going to happen worldwide very rapidly, and I think most countries are ill-prepared for that, and underappreciate how technology is changing that, not unlike how technology is changing AI. It will be changing the technology around the plumbing of finance.”

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Defenses that have been built to stop the resurgent run game sometimes look ill-prepared for pass-happy frenzies in crunchtime.

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Why are we so ill-prepared for the common cold?

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Being sloppy and ill-prepared is not how you get to the Super Bowl.

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