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