deficient
Example Sentences
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"If it turns out the shipowners were deficient, they will expect the full force of the law," Lopez told reporters.
From Barron's
After MI5 apologised, we then showed that inquiries into what happened by MI5 and the government were deficient and unreliable, with further falsehoods provided to the court.
From BBC
“It is a very deficient law,” said Francisco Monaldi, a Venezuelan who directs the Latin America energy program at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy.
Meanwhile, older people think I’m somehow financially deficient because I rent.
LPA is the rainfall or snow recorded over a region over 30 to 50 years and use its average to classify current weather as normal, excess or deficient.
From BBC
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