deficiently

In his sworn statement, Mr. Ritenour said he had been asked by new lawyers to “possibly confess to performing deficiently.”

Ruiz’s attorneys contend his trial and original appeals attorneys performed deficiently by failing to investigate and present mitigating evidence on his punishment.

They were not uniform, the breeches were bad, bellies deficiently covered, and they carried considerable kemp.

But for its use in that district a large number of men, women, and children, who are deficiently clothed and fed, would be warm and sleek.

It reflects little credit on the English government that the English fleet was so deficiently supplied with ammunition as to be unable to complete the destruction of the invaders.