Shortcoming Definition

shôrtkŭmĭng
shortcomings
noun
shortcomings
A falling short of what is expected or required; defect or deficiency.
Webster's New World
A deficiency; a flaw.
American Heritage

Deficiency.

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Noun

Singular:
shortcoming
Plural:
shortcomings

Shortcoming Sentence Examples

  • This is not a shortcoming of our imaginations but rather a simple reality.

  • Fred's biggest shortcoming is that's he's not afraid enough!

  • A tolerably evident shortcoming of such a doctrine is that, while declaring the quantitative determination of matter to be the individual element in the individual, it gives no account of how such quantitative determination arises.

  • One shortcoming of standardized testing is that it assumes that the same instrument can evaluate all students.

  • Certainly, this is a bug in Firefox, and by no means a shortcoming of the flash satay method itself.

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