inefficientlyadv.
In an inefficient manner; in a way that does not effect its purpose; ineffectively.
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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > uselessness, vanity, or futility > [adverb] > ineffectively
unmightilyc1443
slenderly?1531
limpingly1579
unprevailing1632
ineffectively1655
weakly1663
inefficaciously1727
abortively1744
inefficiently1828
1828 in N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang.
1835 T. Walker Original No. 1. 11 The art of government is the most difficult..of all arts, and it is the most inefficiently practised.
1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator vi. 403/2 I fear that I have very feebly enforced and very inefficiently illustrated the true principles on which works of furniture should be constructed.
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adv.1828- to keep company
- to keep company with
- to keep complement
- to keep counsel
- to keep count
- to keep dark
- to keep dark about
- to keep dark about something
- to keep day
- to keep down
- to keep early hours
- to keep etc company
- to keep etc to heel
- to keep even compass
- to keep even pace
- to keep evensong
- to keep fair quarter with
- to keep fair quarters with
- to keep fair with
- to keep faith
- to keep follow to heel
- to keep foot with
- to keep foot-side with
- to keep footside with
- to keep footsides with