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

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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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.

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

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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.

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