The phrase "inadequate standard" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a level of quality or performance that is insufficient or not meeting expectations.
Example: "The project was delayed due to the inadequate standard of the initial designs submitted by the team."
Alternatives: "insufficient level" or "subpar quality."
What is more, in basing your decision on this one criterion, you provide for your readers an inadequate standard by which to measure the merits of the candidates in the Tenth Congressional District.
"When access is permitted it is often done so reluctantly – it is not widely advertised, left unregulated and is often of an inadequate standard," says Marie Pascall, director of Performance Interpreting, which provides the service for Festival Republic.
It said: "Following the inquest into Mr Rigg's death and the Casales' Review the MPS (Metropolitan Police Service) accepts that the first IPCC investigation was of an inadequate standard.
For decades an unusually large dependent population, a predominantly agricultural economy, and a prevailing resistance to change have kept Mississippi's per capita income low and created an inadequate standard of living for many families.
Jack Straw, the home secretary, acknowledged in the Commons that the passport agency had provided an "inadequate standard of service" while his junior minister Mike O'Brien said if problems at the beleaguered agency were not resolved, ministers' jobs would be "on the line".
She faces a £150 annual fee to live there but has refused to pay it, saying the estate's shared spaces are of inadequate standard.
"Those that killed our sons also met those same inadequate standards".
The public service pensions at issue tomorrow really are generous by the abjectly inadequate standards of most private retirement plans.
It blamed "significant weaknesses" on its headteacher and executive head, noting inadequate standards of behaviour and divisions between the pupils of different ethnicity.
The word "holistic" is at best a piece of branding; but at worst, it's a cloak for accepting inadequate standards of referencing and evidence.
One in five British workers and their families are likely to have inadequate standards of living because they are being paid less than the living wage, according to a study.
