suboptimal

Lopez’s ubiquity confronted them with two suboptimal choices: either acknowledge a history of racial homogeneity or pretend to have always been butt boosters.

Sticking with some fixed percentage just felt wrong and suboptimal to me.

It was another suboptimal week for American politics news.

But I think in this particular case, that it is suboptimal because it leads Democratic Party voters to be angry with and attack their own party and its leadership.

“Based on the information provided by the DNA testing kit manufacturer,” the department said, “the use of the affected kits may have led to incomplete or suboptimal results but is not likely to have falsely identified any individual.”