How to Use underqualified in a Sentence

underqualified

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• Eleven hours later, Monica has a profane, if underqualified lawyer, and the lawyer tells her to get up and leave.
  — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 12 Oct. 2021
• To fill gaps in staffing, schools in Washington state have had to turn to underqualified employees.
  — Janelle Retka, al, 6 Oct. 2022
• No, the academy may not be opening its arms to Dr. Yasmin McKay, but there’s always room at the table for another underqualified man.
  — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 20 Aug. 2021
• But when Biden named Kamala Harris as his running mate, he was accused of elevating someone underqualified for the job.
  — Steve Chapman, chicagotribune.com, 18 Dec. 2020
• Low pay contributed to a constant churn in staff and drew mostly underqualified candidates, former staffers said.
  — Lulu Ramadan, ProPublica, 4 Dec. 2022
• Also, the rise in remote work during the pandemic may be adding to confusion across inexperienced, underqualified staff.
  — Lila Kee, Forbes, 12 Apr. 2022
• But as Bowlsby’s decision 16 years ago illustrated, sometimes the best candidate is the one who appears underqualified.
  — Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Nov. 2022
• Over the last four years, the Trump administration and Senate have been ramming through underqualified judicial appointments, many of whom are clearly connected to these fundamentalist groups and agree with their goals.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Oct. 2020
• Heywood had to settle for trying to teach Zain's underqualified, inexperienced staff how to produce better research.
  — Brendan I. Koerner, Wired, 12 Oct. 2021
• Tight funds have also led to cutting corners with complaints about testing booths being hastily built and badly designed and companies hiring underqualified employees.
  — Christian Shepherd, Washington Post, 13 June 2022
• Many were underqualified to consider the overall effect on other components of society.
  — WSJ, 29 Dec. 2020
• From California to Alabama, news reports and public records show that prisons routinely hire underqualified and even disgraced medical staff.
  — NBC News, 1 July 2021
• Trump judges were often underqualified ideologues rubber-stamped by the right-wing Federalist Society.
  — Pablo Manríquez, The New Republic, 14 Feb. 2023
• In reality, despite the existential stakes, many of these laboratories have lacked proper accreditation and oversight; been staffed by overworked, underfunded, and underqualified analysts; and been mired in scandal.
  — Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Apr. 2021
• Ayodele feels the consistent enforcement of existing hiring policies and clear standards could address the problem of highly experienced and accomplished Black men being bypassed for relatively underqualified white candidates.
  — Shaun Harper, Rolling Stone, 13 Feb. 2022
• With fewer college graduates training to be educators, more districts are hiring what many consider underqualified teachers, often relying on long-term substitutes or paraprofessionals.
  — Gabe Cohen, CNN, 11 Sep. 2023
• Keeping underqualified personnel can put an organization at major risk.
  — Mohan S, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2023
• Others have simply said Saturday is woefully underqualified.
  — Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 10 Nov. 2022
• However, McDaniels doesn’t exactly look overmatched or underqualified.
  — Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Nov. 2022
• But others described encountering underqualified instructors and inadequate services.
  — Brian M. Rosenthal, New York Times, 29 Dec. 2022

Last Updated: 6 Oct 2024