coming up short

adjective as in lacking

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Can you fault de Waal for coming up short on some of the most challenging questions moral theorists have seen fit to investigate?

After coming up short three times, novelist Julian Barnes finally won the Booker Prize—and for a deeply wise and important book.

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On this page you'll find 33 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to come up short, such as: decline, drop, fall, miss, succumb, and yield.

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