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found wanting
adjective as in culpable
adjective as in deficient
Strongest matches
adjective as in inadequate
Strongest matches
adjective as in undermanned
Strongest match
Weak matches
adjective as in unfinished
Strongest matches
Weak matches
- amateurish
- crude
- cut short
- dabbling
- defective
- deficient
- dilettante
- faulty
- formless
- fragmentary
- half-baked
- half-done
- immature
- imperfect
- in the making
- in the rough
- lacking
- natural
- not done
- plain
- raw
- rough
- roughhewn
- shapeless
- sketchy
- tentative
- unaccomplished
- unassembled
- uncompleted
- unconcluded
- under construction
- undone
- unexecuted
- unfashioned
- unperfected
- unpolished
- unrefined
- wanting
Example Sentences
The problem was that Erik Ten Hag’s side were found wanting at crucial times in both penalty areas.
Can — at the ripe old age of 25 — had been judged and weighed by soccer’s elite, and found wanting.
“Dragnet” changed the names to protect the innocent, but nowadays it’s the fashion to keep the names, while the facts, found wanting on their own, might get a fictional assist.
When the heat was on they were both found wanting.
Fury said former cruiserweight champion Usyk will be "found wanting" on 18 May in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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