unpromisingly

adverb

as in insufficiently

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  1. insufficiently
  2. inadequately
  3. wrongly
  4. mistakenly
  5. inappropriately
  6. improperly
  7. incorrectly
Adverb
  • The group had been considering revoking the endorsement of the council member over her views on Israel, which some considered insufficiently tough.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2026
  • At an October debate, Bass pointed out that Raman, as chair of the city council’s housing and homelessness committee, had repeatedly approved spending on Inside Safe, the very program Raman now criticizes as expensive and insufficiently accountable.
    — Maxwell Adler, Vanity Fair, 26 Oct. 2026
Definition of insufficiently
Adverb
  • However, his excavations focused largely on major artifacts while leaving other parts of the tombs unexplored and inadequately documented.
    — Anne Doran for ARTnews, Robb Report, 3 Nov. 2026
  • The responders told Abe that village leadership left them understaffed and inadequately equipped to contend with the flooding.
    — Cengiz Yar, ProPublica, 3 Nov. 2026
Definition of inadequately
Adverb
  • This day, Newsom recalls being joined by Pete Pianezzi, a former bank robber wrongly convicted of a 1937 Los Angeles double homicide.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov. 2026
  • Paoletta said the Democratic congressman was wrongly characterizing the scope of the original, century-old construction plan, citing correspondence from long-ago officials.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 6 Nov. 2026
Definition of wrongly
Adverb
  • One—a 1962 uprising in Brunei—had mistakenly been left out of the previous dataset.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 6 Nov. 2026
  • Many people mistakenly assume rex is only a masculine term, when it was actually applied to any gender.
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 5 Nov. 2026
Definition of mistakenly
Adverb
  • In many cases, boards and investors focused on ethical breaches, such as executives using company funds inappropriately or advancing the careers of romantic partners who reported to them.
    — Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, semafor.com, 9 Nov. 2026
  • Moore was convicted in 2013 in an unrelated incident of inappropriately touching a 16-year-old boy.
    — Jack Harvel, Kansas City Star, 2 Nov. 2026
Definition of inappropriately
Adverb
  • Some voters were improperly kicked off the voting rolls because of address mistakes contained in voter information Watson had purchased from the Experian credit rating agency, the news site Mississippi Today reported Friday.
    — Gregory S. Schneider The Washington Post, Arkansas Online, 11 Nov. 2026
  • Oklahoma alleged the company improperly charged pharmacies transaction fees between September 2020 and October 2021.
    — Suzanne Blake, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Nov. 2026
Definition of improperly
Adverb
  • A number of calls were either seemingly mishandled, called incorrectly or slanted in favor of one side or the other.
    — Ian Miller OutKick, FOXNews.com, 11 Nov. 2026
  • According to the outlet, a military analyst using an AI chatbot to prepare an intelligence assessment of a Chinese vessel incorrectly concluded that the ship was transporting nuclear materials.
    — Keren Yarhi-Milo, Time, 8 Nov. 2026
Definition of incorrectly
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