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

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

From Los Angeles Times

Inside the agency, Dudek, ill-prepared for leadership or for DOGE’s murky agenda, was stumbling through the chaos in part by creating some of his own.

From Salon

Opposition lawmakers have blamed the government for being ill-prepared to handle the situation.

From BBC

Scientists said they fear the Trump administration could seek to shut down the effort or enlist other authors to write a very different report that seeks to attack climate science — a path they say would leave the country ill-prepared for worsening disasters intensified by humanity’s warming of the planet, including more intense heat waves, wildfires, droughts, floods and sea-level rise.

From Los Angeles Times

Publishing the first of these in July 2024, Baroness Hallett said the UK was "ill-prepared for dealing with a catastrophic emergency, let alone the coronavirus pandemic".

From BBC