Sentence examples for pitifully inadequate from inspiring English sources

It has been a pitifully inadequate response.

This, say UN officials, was pitifully inadequate after the bite of seven years of sanctions.

Isn't that — as Laurs2 from Florida commented in the blog — a "pitifully inadequate" amount?

The tents housing them in Gori and elsewhere look pitifully inadequate for winter.

(Peppiatt's reminiscence of Dyer, spouting broad cockney-sparrowisms, is pitifully inadequate).

George Taplin, the burly head of the Herndon Minutemen, makes a hand gesture indicating that he considers this pitifully inadequate.

The population is mostly rural and pitifully poor.

However, donor pledges have so far fallen pitifully short.

We use them like lolly water, yet our knowledge base appears pitifully poor.

The rules are pitifully weak and inadequate.

Unfortunately, the pitifully small amount proposed, $50 billion, is wholly inadequate to the task of completely overhauling and modernizing American transportation, energy, and communications infrastructure.