unsufficient

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“Good. I reply, verse is 'made.' But the word 'make' is unsufficient for a true poem. 'Create' is unsufficient. All words are insufficient. Because of this. The poem exists before it is written.”

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell

Still, this is unsufficient to be conclusive to the validity of a fact in the fourth.

From The Ethnology of the British Islands by Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)

Unnecessary Lawes are not good Lawes; but trapps for Mony: which where the right of Soveraign Power is acknowledged, are superfluous; and where it is not acknowledged, unsufficient to defend the People.

From Leviathan by Hobbes, Thomas

And as Miracles, without preaching that Doctrine which God hath established; so preaching the true Doctrine, without the doing of Miracles, is an unsufficient argument of immediate Revelation.

From Leviathan by Hobbes, Thomas