Humans function underwater by virtue of technology, as our physiology is poorly adapted to the environment.

The indigenous populations were poorly adapted for work on plantations, and many people died from diseases introduced by the Europeans.

A man easily killed by bacteria was poorly adapted; he didn't live long enough to reproduce.

A bacteria that killed its host was also poorly adapted.

A 1948 study of his catalogued ways in which sick patients were poorly adapted to their social environments.

Any offspring produced might have been poorly adapted to local conditions.

Some of the recipes are poorly adapted to a home kitchen, giving olive oil and sugar by the ounce, or yielding 10 to 24 portions.

It seemed poorly adapted for human use.

They were poorly adapted to their society.

Asian varieties are poorly adapted to African conditions as their cultivation requires abundant water.