A short length of rope seemed pitifully inadequate to her, but he had to know a lot more about it than she did.

The $30 billion bipartisan package agreed upon by the Congress and President is pitifully inadequate.

More and more, he was being made aware that his own views of things were often based on pitifully inadequate information.

They were pitifully inadequate, but someone might understand.

But the disaster in Rwanda was so great that such precautions were pitifully inadequate.

These efforts would seem pitifully inadequate to a modern social reformer.

And toy factories with pitifully inadequate fire precautions stay open.

It was a pitifully inadequate act of mercy, but he went on nevertheless, choosing the suffering children first.

Their equipment was pitifully inadequate for the job they had to do.

Funding for the arts in this country is pitifully inadequate.