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Meanings of shortcoming in English

Portuguese
defeito
Catalan
defecte
Spanish
falta

An imperfection in a device or machine.

defeito
Usage of shortcoming in English
1
Don't think that it happens by chance or that it's a shortcoming.
The Guardian
2
Only sheep in the Republic go unidentified; a shortcoming exposed by foot-and-mouth.
The Irish Times
3
Sometimes this is the result of art, sometimes of a natural shortcoming.
Tales of Old Japan
4
Yet this is a race where the slightest shortcoming can be multiplied.
The Irish Times
5
Squire Bartley had a growing sense of shortcoming in his farming operations.
Nature's Serial Story
6
This woeful shortcoming from bygone days attended other aspects of the scene.
Through the Mackenzie Basin / A Narrative of the Athabasca and P...
7
His second shortcoming was too great liberality, too much confidence in others.
Pushing to the Front
8
Systematic comparison of such deficits is another shortcoming in Ireland's policy discourse.
The Irish Times
9
What Parliament has now embarked upon is to fix that procedural shortcoming.
The South African
10
One shortcoming of such methods of arming an aeroplane will be observed.
Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War
11
Within relatively stable contexts this shortcoming is noticed only at rare intervals.
The Civilization of Illiteracy
12
Her love shielded her from any shortcoming that could possibly lower her.
Joyce of the North Woods
13
Newsstand elegantly addresses one big shortcoming of the iPhone: shifting data around.
Wired
14
Hong Kong and Singapore are not alone in grappling with that shortcoming.
Reuters
15
Research into the running motion of animals has helped to overcome that shortcoming.
The Irish Times
16
In Mazzetti's opinion that was a shortcoming of most police forces.
The perfect woman
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Shortcoming through the time
Shortcoming across language varieties
United States of America
Common
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