underdeveloped

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Underdeveloped characters randomly state the subtext aloud and we never learn the details of Connie and JoJo’s scam, or why their customers might buy from them.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 9, 2021

Underdeveloped as characters, Mother and Toy never come into focus.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2018

In his 1957 study “Economic Theory and Underdeveloped Regions” and elsewhere, he suggested that a Scandinavian-style model was not only good social policy but smart economics.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 9, 2015

Underdeveloped countries especially need this because they lack big, viable commercial research sectors.

From Slate • Jan. 11, 2015

Underdeveloped, because with physical tools its development had been made unnecessary?

From Eight Keys to Eden by Clifton, Mark