shortcoming
a failure, defect, or deficiency in conduct, condition, thought, ability, etc.: a social shortcoming; a shortcoming of his philosophy.
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How to use shortcoming in a sentence
After all, wearOS has been around for a while and received plenty of updates, but still has its share of shortcomings.
As a result, many advertisers that had been guaranteed to reach the usual number of people will likely be owed so-called “make-goods,” in which the networks run an advertiser’s ads to make up for the delivery shortcoming.
‘Significant under-delivery’: TV advertisers grapple with glut of live sports affecting viewership | Tim Peterson | September 24, 2020 | DigidayStacey Hronowski and Artem Pasyechnyk founded the company after identifying a shortcoming in Metrc.
Canix aims to ease cannabis cultivators’ regulatory bookkeeping | Matt Burns | September 17, 2020 | TechCrunchAmong the PPP program’s many shortcomings was its failure to reach businesses owned by women and people of color, with enormous sums of money instead being directed to franchise locations of national chain restaurants.
Is the Government Just Going to Watch the Restaurant Industry Die? | Elazar Sontag | August 28, 2020 | EaterRecognizing this shortcoming, last year, we collected data on our staff, board, readers, events, podcast guests and stories to get a comprehensive idea of how well we reflected the region.
A Message to Our Readers on Newsroom Diversity | Voice of San Diego | July 15, 2020 | Voice of San Diego
It also requires that liberals think differently about politics and not interpret every Obama shortcoming as some kind of sellout.
It was a classic case of admitting a shortcoming and making it a strength.
Romney’s Lame Speech Might Have Gone Better Had He Learned From Bush 1 and Al Gore | Robert Shrum | September 1, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTI saw PTSD not as some mental defect or shortcoming inside myself, but instead as an enemy.
The Killing of a Park Ranger on Mount Rainier Reminds Us to Help Returning Soldiers | Benjamin Tupper | January 3, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTAs long as they believed Saraswati was infallible, any dissatisfaction they experienced was a personal shortcoming.
Then he can only look his love and loyalty, wistfully, as if he felt his own shortcoming in the matter of speech.
Greyfriars Bobby | Eleanor AtkinsonIt came to that at last, that I could not bear to speak to him of any shortcoming as to one of his own clergymen.
The Last Chronicle of Barset | Anthony TrollopeTheir discretion was regarded 'as a certain cure for every shortcoming of the law and every evil arising out of it.'
The English Utilitarians, Volume I. | Leslie StephenStill, no hesitation or serious shortcoming appeared in their fulfilment of duties.
But it must be allowed that democracy stood for a great deal in our shortcoming.
British Dictionary definitions for shortcoming
/ (ˈʃɔːtˌkʌmɪŋ) /
a failing, defect, or deficiency
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