It made her feel somehow inadequate, less than passionate.

To call this the "democratisation of communication", or of information, or of culture seems somehow inadequate.

For most mission grape wines, "truly awful" is somehow inadequate as a description.

It sounded rather silly and somehow inadequate.

The marble rolling pin and the two pans I had bought to make dinner for a long-ago date seemed somehow inadequate.

Yet it seemed the truth was somehow inadequate now.

The hand was an old-fashioned one, but it made him feel somehow inadequate.

To say his face was a chiseled masterpiece and his body a monument to male perfection seemed inadequate somehow.

I didn't feel guilty about it, though I did feel a bit inadequate somehow.

The president seems somehow inadequate beside him.