inadequateness
Example Sentences
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It does not apply to a will which is infected with inadequateness of self expression.
From Landmarks of Scientific Socialism "Anti-Duehring" by Engels, Friedrich
These considerations tend not only to vindicate the inadequateness of this review, but perhaps even to justify it in the eyes of the exacting reader, who may have expected a more thorough survey.
From Rambles and Studies in Greece by Mahaffy, J. P.
They may not point to the right mode of meeting inadequateness, but they do point to the existence and consciousness of it.
From On Compromise by Morley, John
She—perhaps McTeague as well—felt that there was a certain inadequateness about the ceremony.
From McTeague by Norris, Frank
A very simple observation would have sufficed to make the philosophers, antecedent to Newton, feel the inadequateness of the causes they admitted to operate with such powerful effect.
From The System of Nature, Volume 1 by Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry, baron d'
