"even more inadequate" is a correctly used phrase in written English.
You can use this to emphasize something that is already inadequate. For example, "His response to the crisis was even more inadequate than expected."
Efforts to deal with the underlying causes of flooding are even more inadequate.
Schulz's virtuosic twist is to give him a dog, Snoopy, who is a brilliant wordless communicator, and whose role is to make his master feel even more inadequate.
To find out that he was only eight years older than me makes me feel even more inadequate than I felt on that day in 1964.
If the toll is confirmed, it would be the deadliest yet of a succession of tragedies involving desperate migrants, unscrupulous traffickers, inadequate fishing smacks and an even more inadequate EU response.
Even when they are cradling deceptively dangerous resident koala bears or teaching visitors how to throw a boomerang - invariably the cause of great hilarity - a respectful earnestness informs their manner, which somehow causes you to feel even more inadequate and inferior in the presence of these proud people with their superior knowledge of nature.
With a rapidly aging population, the present infrastructure for healthcare will prove even more inadequate to meet seniors' physical and mental health needs.
The problem is made even more difficult by inadequate methods of requirements priority ranking.
Re "When 3 Minutes Late Is On Time: New Transit Agency Standards Raise Questions of Fairness" (news article, Oct. 4): While defining lateness is important, even more important is the inadequate number of trains and buses at all times but rush hours.
Of course, this makes assessment even more time-consuming, "expensive," and inadequate for clinical application.
Stella Papamichael of the BBC approved of his performance, saying that "Hutcherson's delivery is spot-on, showing a keen instinct for self-effacing humor that would make even Woody Allen feel that bit more inadequate", but Variety columnist Brian Lowry felt that Hutcherson "might have looked cute on the page, but even with his Linus voice the language and tone [didn't] feel natural".
Even more troubling, she points out, "The inadequate system of ballot accounting and reconciliation for DREs needs to be fixed.
