deficient

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In a letter to Northern Ireland Secretary Hilary Benn, it stated the bill is "manifestly deficient" and contains "almost no protections beyond those which already exist".

From BBC

At California City Detention Facility, immigrants file lawsuit over alleged ‘shockingly deficient’ medical care, frigid temperatures, bugs crawling on walls, sewage backups, inadequate food and water, and generally ‘decrepit’ conditions.

From Los Angeles Times

Many people in the UK remain deficient in Vitamin D and Professor Tregoning suggests that winter sunlight and getting outdoors can help.

From BBC

By the next summer, its management was rated deficient, and by early 2023, intense scrutiny of the bank stretched to the Fed’s highest reaches.

From New York Times

The Fed said the bank's deficient oversight enabled it to violate U.S. sanctions by providing a trade finance platform to a foreign bank that used it to process $532 million in prohibited transactions.

From Reuters