inadequacy

Being put on a PIP by someone who used to be your equal probably stirs up feelings of inadequacy.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 2026

A report released recently by IGNES, a French trade alliance, warns of “a massive inadequacy of housing to cope with high temperatures.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026

Mr. O’Connor’s involving novel, which continues into the 1970s, is about the inadequacy of the psychoanalytic practice to confront the collective psychosis of 20th-century history.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 3, 2026

Lidl was not able to pass the inadequacy test for a standard off-licence.

From BBC ● Apr. 9, 2026

Black newspapers and their readers wasted no time in making the link between America’s inadequacy in space and the dreadful conditions facing many black students in the South.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly

Tenor Ryan Bryce Johnson displayed comic flair as Neal, who covers his inadequacies with tall tales.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

States that agreed to it would provide voter lists to the Justice Department, which would then look for any “insufficiencies, inadequacies, deficiencies, anomalies, or concerns.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 24, 2025

Robinson told the hearing he had been concerned one of the suspects in the case may have been wrongfully detained due to "inadequacies in the case" during the arrest.

From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2025

But in practice, it has often led to long environmental reports, studies and reviews, that are sometimes followed by lawsuits over possible inadequacies that can require a restart.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2025

I began to see that by my astonishing growth I had made them shrink and emphasized their inadequacies.

From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes