The phrase "shockingly inadequate" is correct and commonly used in written English.
It is used to describe something that is unbelievably insufficient or lacking, often causing shock or surprise. It can be used to describe a wide range of things, such as a product, service, performance, or situation. Example: The emergency response to the natural disaster was shockingly inadequate, leaving many people stranded and without help for days.
Secrecy and shockingly inadequate medical care are hardly the only problems with immigration detention.
As a consequence, sex education in British schools is shockingly inadequate.
Congress ordered a study by the National Academy of Sciences, which found that many patients received "shockingly inadequate" care.
Poor people are still imprisoned, and even put to death, after trials in which they have shockingly inadequate legal representation.
The investigation also suggested that charges of abuse by guards were being swept under the rug and that psychiatric services for mentally disabled children were shockingly inadequate.
In one reader's report, we see him demolish a well-known historian, calling her research "shockingly inadequate" and her writing "fairly drab".
They have been shockingly and stunningly inadequate for decades.
He committed to joining the war long before he told the cabinet or the public, sold the invasion on the basis of a false prospectus about weapons of mass destruction, and the planning for the aftermath was shockingly and catastrophically inadequate.
The 2012 report described poor staffing and accountability measures, "shockingly high rates" of violence, "grossly inadequate" suicide prevention measures, "unreasonable barriers" to medical care and little to no help for prisoners who did not speak English.
The hawkers who go from door to door selling coal from baskets on their backs look shockingly small and aged, thanks to a life of hard toil and inadequate food.
Among the areas that the Justice Department has focused on are "shockingly high rates" of violence, as well as suicide prevention measures that are "grossly inadequate" and have most likely resulted in multiple suicides (there have been at least 37 deaths at the jail, including 6 suicides, since January 2006, according to coroners' reports compiled in a separate lawsuit against the jail).
