How to Use inadequacy in a Sentence

inadequacy

noun

• Guilt, fear and inadequacy are strong weapons used against mothers.
  — Atlanta Life, ajc, 12 May 2017
• What really moved me is how much that shame and inadequacy had bled into different parts of their life.
  — Laura Beck, Cosmopolitan, 28 May 2017
• Brief feelings of inadequacy may undermine your confidence this week.
  — Jeraldine Saunders, The Mercury News, 19 Mar. 2017
• Recruiting interest was scant, and at a tryout for a fall-ball team at Camden Yards, a sense of inadequacy was inescapable.
  — Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com, 31 May 2017
• But as long ago as 1964, its inadequacy and limitations were perceived.
  — baltimoresun.com, 11 May 2017
• In your head, though, a mental teleprompter is streaming a string of garbled words that make up your networking pitch, and thoughts of inadequacy and self-criticism become obtrusive.
  — Wendy Rose Gould, NBC News, 14 May 2017
• Beyond a couple of minor role players on the Warriors’ bench, neither side is burdened by the innocence and inadequacy of the unready or unripe.
  — Harvey Araton, New York Times, 11 June 2017
• By common consent, this was a dismal campaign in which May took victory for granted and, remarkably, ran a campaign of startling inadequacy.
  — Alex Massie, The Atlantic, 9 June 2017
• In addition to buffer zone inadequacy, O’Neill pointed to vent screening as a common failure point, as well as the need for homes with wood siding to be retrofitted.
  — Jamie Gold, Forbes, 4 Sep. 2024
• That said, the sheer size of the Atlantic Ocean and the inadequacy of the technology of the time stalled the search for the wreck for years.
  — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 17 Feb. 2023
• For Becker, the project’s story starts back in 2002, when a drought laid bare the inadequacy of the city’s water supply.
  — Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 4 Aug. 2024
• One of the biggest knocks on the Seaport is the inadequacy of public transit.
  — Jon Chesto, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Jan. 2020
• Back in May 2019, the award-winning artist got real about her feelings of inadequacy and shame over the pair's challenges.
  — Kayla Keegan, Good Housekeeping, 5 Nov. 2020
• His goal is to reveal the inadequacy of the current strategy of the left to break out of the constrictive framework that the right has erected around them.
  — Clio Chang, New Republic, 22 June 2017
• Her journals are filled with comments about the inadequacies of her wardrobe.
  — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2023
• Kerr has been nagged ever since by the inadequacy of science, and of language, to fully capture the mysteries of the mind.
  — Phoebe Zerwick, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2024
• But the anxiety and the feeling of inadequacy were gone.
  — Clarissa Wei, The New Yorker, 23 Mar. 2024
• Any feelings of inadequacy were short-lived, however; for Foy there was more work to do.
  — Adam Rathe, Town & Country, 6 Sep. 2017
• Defined in terms of inadequacy, an accent becomes not a feature of your speech but a flaw.
  — Sheon Han, The New Yorker, 23 Apr. 2021
• And when Georgia smothered the Crimson Tide in the first half, holding Bama to 94 total yards and four first downs on 24 plays, the inadequacies seemed to have been exposed.
  — George Schroeder, USA TODAY, 9 Jan. 2018
• In fact, his solution to Beth's feelings of inadequacy was to hire her for his campaign team.
  — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 28 Nov. 2018
• This is the story Smith wants to tell about his life: that of a fierce drive for success rooted in powerful feelings of inadequacy.
  — Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2021
• The government, along with the Olympic committee, has played a role in the inadequacy of SafeSport.
  — Jeré Longman, New York Times, 30 July 2019
• All the while, Cameron plants calamitous forebodings — the inadequacies of the life rafts, equipment shortages and the vanity of the ship's creators and captain.
  — Thr Staff, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Dec. 2017
• But Trump is wrong to politicize the inadequacy of paper straws as a replacement.
  — Jenni Avins, Quartz, 20 July 2019
• Despite his good fortune, Brad is stressed about the future and plagued by feelings of inadequacy.
  — Jon Frosch, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Sep. 2017
• Many are haunted by the fear that this inadequacy is personal and doesn’t affect their peers.
  — Neil Howe, Fortune, 18 July 2023
• The inadequacy of this system is evident from the very nature of the rules established to enforce it.
  — Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
• Nor did the new signs of success and acceptance ease her feelings of inadequacy.
  — Douglass K. Daniel, SFChronicle.com, 31 Dec. 2019
• But Kapai pointed out that the RDO has only been used in court a handful of times as evidence of its inadequacy.
  — Jessie Yeung, CNN, 21 Aug. 2020

Last Updated: 27 Oct 2024