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unpromisingly

adverb

as in insufficiently

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  1. insufficiently
  2. inadequately
  3. wrongly
  4. mistakenly
  5. inappropriately
  6. improperly
  7. incorrectly
Adverb
  • Or… 2) Miami is insufficiently impressed and spends its likely very high 2027 first-round draft pick on a QB with the clear intent for the rookie to soon replace Willis.
    — Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 4 Sep. 2026
  • Especially exciting to him was the German student movement, which combined support for liberation across the non-Western world with attacks on what the students considered the suffocating (and still insufficiently de-Nazified) Federal Republic.
    — Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of insufficiently
Adverb
  • The case went before Carter, who also oversees a six-year-old case in which the city and county are accused of inadequately addressing homelessness.
    — David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2026
  • Beatty has challenged the board’s plan to close the Kennedy Center for two years, arguing its initial decision was rushed and inadequately considered.
    — Claire Carter, The Washington Examiner, 5 Sep. 2026
Definition of inadequately
Adverb
  • But about 1 in 20 patients progress to severe dengue, a life-threatening turn that tends to strike just as the fever breaks – often around days three to seven, when patients and their families may wrongly assume the worst is over.
    — Andrés Henao, CNN Money, 21 Sep. 2026
  • The patients don't even realize their insurer is being billed wrongly for those services.
    — Marissa Sulek, CBS News, 18 Sep. 2026
Definition of wrongly
Adverb
  • Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents mistakenly detained a US citizen in a Chicago suburb Sunday morning, leaving him on the ground with various injuries, according to local authorities.
    — Julianna Bragg, CNN Money, 23 Sep. 2026
  • Meanwhile, police in Evanston, Illinois, are investigating an incident in which a man reported injuries to his head, neck and teeth after ICE officers mistakenly targeted him.
    — Josh Feldman, NBC news, 23 Sep. 2026
Definition of mistakenly
Adverb
  • However, an appellate court panel of judges ruled that the judge and the Manhattan District Attorney's Office inappropriately cited a penal law to seize the drawing.
    — CBS Chicago Team, CBS News, 20 Sep. 2026
  • Rush was accused of behaving inappropriately toward actress Eryn Jean Norvill in a series of 2017 articles in The Daily Telegraph.
    — Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 13 Sep. 2026
Definition of inappropriately
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  • Even the compression through Turn 6’s apex, which always reveals improperly tuned suspension for motorbikes and race cars alike, can’t upset the Rimini.
    — Michael Van Runkle, Robb Report, 21 Sep. 2026
  • The South Carolina Supreme Court later overturned the convictions after finding that former Colleton County Clerk of Court Becky Hill improperly influenced the jury.
    — Adam Sabes, FOXNews.com, 21 Sep. 2026
Definition of improperly
Adverb
  • Muse incorrectly responds that such an action isn’t possible.
    — Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 21 Sep. 2026
  • An earlier version of this story incorrectly said the Federal Reserve under Jerome Powell started cutting rates after inflation started to climb.
    — Scott Horsley, NPR, 19 Sep. 2026
Definition of incorrectly
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“Unpromisingly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unpromisingly. Accessed 26 Sep. 2026.

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