inadequacy

He then proceeded to show the inadequacy of the figures presented by Mr. O'Connell.

The inadequacy, the feebleness of the whole thing is astounding.

Alderling repeated in a tone of amaze at the inadequacy of my epithet.

The insufficiency, the inadequacy of his staff and of chief-of-staff.

Again in 1913 he dwelt upon the inadequacy of our aerial defences.

She paused a moment, as if entirely conscious of the inadequacy of the explanation.

Yet many admirers have been left with a sense of inadequacy.

A little reflection will show the inadequacy of such a concept.

The 'felicific calculus' is enough to show the inadequacy of his method.

Nowhere is the inadequacy of this method so obvious as in theories of life.