Adjective

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Not missing the target.

consistently accurate.

* 1717:' Hissing in air the '''unerring weapon flew. -- (John Dryden)'s 1697–1700 translation of "The Story of Meleager and Atalanta", in Ovid's ''Metamorphoses (tr. Garth, Dryden, et al.), book VIII, pub. 1717

* {{quote-book

, year=1960 , author= , title=(Jeeves in the Offing) , section=chapter III , passage=One learns, as one goes through life, to spot goofiness in the other sex with an unerring eye [...]}}

* 2007 , , p. 630-1,

As the assassination of Sadat proved, the Arab irredentists, like the Zionist ultras, have always been unerring in picking off any incipient mediators.

Adjective

(en adjective)

Not adequate; unequal to the purpose; insufficient; deficient; as, inadequate resources, power, conceptions, representations, etc.

* 2013 June 18, , " Protests Widen as Brazilians Chide Leaders," New York Times (retrieved 21 June 2013):

In a convulsion that has caught many in Brazil and beyond by surprise, waves of protesters denounced their leaders for dedicating so many resources to cultivating Brazil’s global image by building stadiums for international events, when basic services like education and health care remain woefully inadequate .