inadequate terms

More clearly, we are discussing a real problem which has been answered, in my opinion, under inadequate terms.

Its subtitle, "An Eschatological Spy Novel", refers to Burgess' idea of the Cold War as a hostile symbiosis, an "ultimate conflict" wherein Good and Evil are inadequate terms.

There is no way to quantify whether the rest of the country has moved on - to use one of the inadequate terms of grief - any more than it can be measured whether New York has moved on from its backyard atrocity.

To say that Tom had no idea of playing first fiddle in any social orchestra, but was always quite satisfied to be set down for the hundred and fiftieth violin in the band, or thereabouts, is to express his modesty in very inadequate terms.