There was no carpet on the floor of the passage, and only a quite inadequate rug on the floor of the room. "The Lion's Share" by E. Arnold Bennett

Miss Stebbings' interesting Life of Miss Cushman is inadequate. "Story of My Life, volumes 1-3" by Augustus J. C. Hare

Charity is sometimes mistaken, but she has some reason, if it is inadequate, for this notion of hers. "The Mayor's Wife" by Anna Katherine Green