inefficient
adjective
not efficient; unable to effect or achieve the desired result with reasonable economy of means.
inefficiently
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a word derived from
inefficient.
Example Sentences
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That January, it was the most inefficiently run organization I had ever seen.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
Venezuela possesses undeveloped rare-earth metal reserves, which have historically been inefficiently tapped.
From Barron's ● Jan. 5, 2026
Our gas boilers are the main culprit; lots of individual devices inefficiently burning fossil fuels to create the heat.
From BBC ● Mar. 11, 2025
But for the first time, researchers reported in May and July that it spread inefficiently through the air between a few laboratory ferrets kept inches apart.
From Salon ● Aug. 2, 2024
In the two-mile and the three-mile trials, the sophomores had gotten off the line badly, flailing at the water inefficiently, as if overexcited and flustered, and letting the older boys get out ahead of them.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
