inadequacy

Being put on a PIP by someone who used to be your equal probably stirs up feelings of inadequacy.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 2026

Mr. O’Connor’s involving novel, which continues into the 1970s, is about the inadequacy of the psychoanalytic practice to confront the collective psychosis of 20th-century history.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 3, 2026

Secondly, the supermarket must pass the "inadequacy" test in which it has to show the number of existing licensed premises in an area is inadequate to meet the needs of the public.

From BBC ● Apr. 9, 2026

He said in those early years he was often overcompensating for his own feelings of inadequacy as the son of a single mom who struggled to pay the rent.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 4, 2026

We lived once again in married student housing, a plywood apartment complex set among pine trees, and the singular topic of conversation among our young neighbors was the inadequacy of these rattletrap tenements.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

“Marilyn’s reading formed a concerted effort to overcome any inadequacies she perceived in herself,” Crowther writes.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 25, 2026

States that agreed to it would provide voter lists to the Justice Department, which would then look for any “insufficiencies, inadequacies, deficiencies, anomalies, or concerns.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 24, 2025

But in practice, it has often led to long environmental reports, studies and reviews, that are sometimes followed by lawsuits over possible inadequacies that can require a restart.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2025

He will speak of "the inadequacies of those who talk a good game, but whose words are never embodied in action".

From BBC ● Dec. 24, 2024

“Except that a robot might fail due to the inherent inadequacies of his brain. The positronic brain has never equalled the complexities of the human brain.”

From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov