insufficientlyadv.
/ɪnsəˈfɪʃəntli/ In an insufficient manner or degree; inadequately; not enough.
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unsufficiently1398
badlyc1400
over-littlec1440
insufficientlya1530
deficiently1702
incompetently1812
none too‥1885
a1530 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfeccyon (1531) iii. f. Clxxviiiv Better it is to prayse her, though insufficiently, than to holde my tonge from her praysynge.
1532–3 Act 24 Hen. VIII c. 1 Hydes and tanned lether..vntruly, insufficiently, and deceiuably tanned.
1641 J. Milton Animadversions 20 As insufficiently, and..as imprudently did they provide by their contrived Liturgies.
1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) V. 336 If he [man] be insufficiently or ill educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures.
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