Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a deficient manner; insufficiently; inadequately.

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  • adverb In a deficient manner.

Etymologies

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deficient +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • Among their findings, FDA inspectors wrote that McNeil's procedures for handling consumer complaints about product quality were "deficiently written or followed."

    FDA Cites Problems at J Peter Loftus 2010

  • Third, the word pilegshim (concubines) in Gen. 25: 6 is spelled deficiently, without the letter yod.

    Keturah: Midrash and Aggadah. 2009

  • I can care about a person for her own sake and not merely instrumentally, and yet such caring does not on its own amount to (non-deficiently) loving her, for it seems I can care about my dog in exactly the same way, a kind of caring which is insufficiently personal for love.

    Love Helm, Bennett 2009

  • MBH98: The spectra of the calibration residuals for these quantities were, furthermore, found to be approximately white, showing little evidence for preferred or deficiently resolved timescales in the calibration process.

    Mannomatic Smoothing and Pinned End-points « Climate Audit 2007

  • The spectrum of the calibration residuals for these quantities, were, furthermore, found to be consistent with a “white” distribution showing little evidence for preferred or deficiently resolved timescales in the calibration process see Mann et al. 1998b for a more detailed analysis.

    More on MBH Confidence Intervals « Climate Audit 2006

  • You will see that some farms are operating deficiently, but you will also see some that are operating very well.

    SECOND NATIONAL CONGRESS OF THE ANAP-CLOSING 1963

  • We know that there are farms on state lands that are operating deficiently.

    SECOND NATIONAL CONGRESS OF THE ANAP-CLOSING 1963

  • If I have supported my prosecution with a dignity befitting its importance, I have spoken as my wishes dictated; if too deficiently, as my abilities admitted.

    Mosaics of Grecian History Marcius Willson

  • Her mind was just as deficiently cultivated in other lines of study, so that the countess later in life had to fill out many a gap in her education by reading.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913

  • And not only did the execution fall so far short of the projects and decrees—not only were many too clearly acknowledged necessities deficiently provided for, even in words, but they arrived at such a pitch of impotency and desperation, that many of the most deplorable and urgent cases were left without succour of any kind.

    Chapter XXXII 1909

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