Sentence example with the word 'shortcoming'

shortcoming

absence, crack, deprivation, erroneousness, flaw, imperfection, inequity, lack, overbalance, snag, unperfectedness

Definition n. a failing or deficiency

Last update: July 23, 2015


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There shortcomings of the experiments are observed later.   [Please select]

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Their discretion was regarded 'as a certain cure for every shortcoming of the law and every evil arising out of it.'   [Please select]

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A teacher with the appropriate name of Slatter set him hard tasks and caned him unmercifully for every shortcoming.   [Please select]

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One serious shortcoming of the habitant was his lack of steadfastness in labor.   [Please select]

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"You're not eating anything," said Marilla sharply, eying her as if it were a serious shortcoming.'   [Please select]

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There is talk that--" "'Twas three generations ago, this talk of the Knollys shortcoming.'   [Please select]

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In that quarter of the town, however, scarcely any shortcoming in dress would have created surprise.   [Please select]

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As a matter of course, they were all disposed to blame the author of this; but when they saw how deeply he felt his own shortcoming, all three felt a natural sympathy for him.   [Please select]

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[Sidenote: Original Goodness] Froebel's most characteristic utterance is perhaps this: "A suppressed or perverted good quality--a good tendency, only repressed, misunderstood, or misguided--lies originally at the bottom of every shortcoming in man."   [Please select]

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