Sentence examples for Deficiently from inspiring English sources

Virtue, then, is a reliable disposition whereby one reacts in relevant situations with the appropriate feeling — neither excessive nor deficient — and acts in the appropriate way — neither excessively nor deficiently.

As the centipede thrashes about, its deficiently stapled seams start to come apart.

Because if Keogh's right, if this "challenges the ethical framework", if we're acting in spite of conscience and not because of it, then almost every junior doctor in the land is flouting the rules set out by the GMC, and performing deficiently.

Even a deficiently diligent survey of the male of the poet species produces a wealth of abusive poets with traduced wives.

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.