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Another word for inefficient

Adjective

  1. Lacking the qualities, as efficiency or skill, required to produce desired results

    2. See also:

    ability

  2. Not having the desired effect

    3. See also:

    affect

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Another word for inefficient

Modifier

  1. Wasteful

    2. See also:

    wasteful

    careless

  2. Lacking competence

    3. See also:

    ineffective

    incompetent

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Sentence Examples

  • We will radically improve the primitive, inefficient process that agriculture is today.

  • We apply inefficient agricultural techniques to grow and harvest them, and then we inefficiently distribute them.

  • After various parliamentary reports and some legislation by way of extension, an important act was passed in 1839 reciting that the system of police established had been found very inefficient and might be yet further improved (Metropolitan Police Act 1839).

  • The watchmen appointed by parishes were useless, inadequate, inefficient and untrustworthy, acting often as accessories in aiding and abetting crime.

  • Impelled by serious charges against Fremont, the president sent Montgomery Blair, the postmaster-general, and Montgomery C. Meigs, the quartermaster-general, to investigate the department; they reported that Fremont's management was extravagant and inefficient; and in November he was removed.

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