imperfectly

The U.S. once stood for—however imperfectly—freedom, democracy, and justice, for standards of fairness and legality.

The cause of this absorptive power is still very imperfectly known.

The fields of the sea are yet too imperfectly explored to afford us all the facts required to make out the whole story.

It is better to play the simplest airs in a finished, faultless manner, than to play imperfectly the most brilliant variations.

In some cases these epitaphs are imperfectly spelled, indicating the humble class to which the survivors belonged.

The spans were in fact designed as independent girders, the advantage of continuity being at that time imperfectly known.