unpromisingly

adverb

as in insufficiently

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  1. insufficiently
  2. inadequately
  3. wrongly
  4. mistakenly
  5. inappropriately
  6. improperly
  7. incorrectly
Adverb
  • Yet many still fail to reach their full potential because the directors are insufficiently engaged, inadequately challenged or possibly confined to narrow definitions of their role.
    — James Langabeer, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026
  • The university determined that Verster was insufficiently transparent because he had been paid through his own company for studies that cited his university affiliation.
    — Ashley Okwuosa, STAT, 30 July 2026
Definition of insufficiently
Adverb
  • Without the federal government as a consistent partner, local efforts are inadequately supported.
    — Monitor Reader, Christian Science Monitor, 28 July 2026
  • Indian troops were deployed to thwart Chinese advances but were reportedly inadequately supplied, underprepared, and overwhelmed.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 22 July 2026
Definition of inadequately
Adverb
  • Knox returned to the United States in 2011, after being freed by the appeals court in Perugia, and has since established herself as a global campaigner for the wrongly convicted.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 6 Aug. 2026
  • Prosecutors secured a prison sentence for Lopez for alleged fraud, but in the appeals process, a judge ruled that she had been wrongly convicted.
    — Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 3 Aug. 2026
Definition of wrongly
Adverb
  • In January, Trooper Joshua Fitzgerald mistakenly rammed the wrong vehicle during a pursuit on Interstate 630 in Little Rock.
    — Grant Lancaster, Arkansas Online, 7 Aug. 2026
  • Consider a scenario in which an AI agent mistakenly updates thousands of customer records or pushes inaccurate data into multiple business systems.
    — Rick Vanover, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026
Definition of mistakenly
Adverb
  • Axios first reported allegations in May about Edwards allegedly having behaved inappropriately toward his young female staff.
    — Jeff Ballou, ABC News, 5 Aug. 2026
  • Police in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, released surveillance video of a suspect accused of inappropriately touching a 12-year-old girl inside a Dollar Tree store Monday afternoon.
    — Madeleine Wright, CBS News, 5 Aug. 2026
Definition of inappropriately
Adverb
  • Tech giant Meta revealed Wednesday that one of its artificial intelligence models hacked another organization during testing, the third time in recent weeks that an AI model has improperly accessed a third-party company.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 6 Aug. 2026
  • The letter from the state Attorney General’s Office asserts that Menlo Park improperly changed its reasons for denying a streamlined approval process for the residential portion of the project.
    — George Avalos, Mercury News, 5 Aug. 2026
Definition of improperly
Adverb
  • However, batteries can pose a secret hazard when they’re charged incorrectly.
    — Nafeesah Allen, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 Aug. 2026
  • But if the work was rushed, incomplete or performed incorrectly, the initial savings can quickly disappear.
    — Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 31 July 2026
Definition of incorrectly
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