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Default contemptibly inadequate

What is `contemptibly inadequate' mean?

Please explain it.
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inadequate - does not come up to standard

contemptibly - deserving scorn/contempt

= well below standard.
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Default Re: contemptibly inadequate

Could anyone give me some simple examples with `contemptibly inadequate'?
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