adjective
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be found wanting
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The policy has been severely tested over the last 16 months and has been found wanting.
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Both were confidently given and both were found wanting.
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Faced with these twin assaults on his ego it was hardly surprising that many players were found wanting.
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Improvements can be made in the light of performance and composers may discard or destroy compositions which are found wanting.
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It's a long time since Donegal were found wanting in so many key areas.
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The toilets were found wanting as well.
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Until Nikos was found wanting Owen would continue to trust him.
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When the match was found wanting, he was able to proceed to non-spherical planets, and so on.
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With the result that pure deduction is found wanting.
without wanting/wishing to do sth
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Without wanting to, Rose was drawn to watch.
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Without wishing to be demeaning, computer literacy and competence is not particularly high on the list of archival training.
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Without wishing to scare you unduly, you should be aware that sharks do lurk out there.
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Without wishing to tempt providence in any way, we appear to have got away lighting in so far as Winter is concerned.
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He had had enough experience of strangers probing his own hurts without wanting to pry into those of others.
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Lying in bed, she thought of him without wanting to hurt him at all.
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She sank deep down again, unable to stay alert, and saw without wanting to a giant Catherine-wheel in the sky.
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The expectation from government industrial ReD is one of reducing dependency on imports without wanting to achieve self-sufficiency.