Crossword-Solution: DEFICIENCY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Deficiency | n. | The state of being deficient; inadequacy; want; failure; imperfection; shortcoming; defect. |
We have 118 clues for the answer “DEFICIENCY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| THING wanting | 1 answer |
| a lack, shortage | 1 answer |
| AMOUNT by which thing falls short | 2 answers |
| iron rations | 3 answers |
| Deletion | 4 answers |
| no quorum | 4 answers |
| infrequency | 5 answers |
| faultiness | 8 answers |
| incompleteness | 11 answers |
| defalcation | 11 answers |
| Feebleness | 14 answers |
| BODY weakness | 15 answers |
| Pittance | 18 answers |
| malnutrition | 19 answers |
| underfeeding | 19 answers |
| undernourishment | 19 answers |
| Demerit | 20 answers |
| defective nutrition | 20 answers |
| insufficient nutrition | 20 answers |
| frailty | 20 answers |
| scantiness | 22 answers |
| ineptitude | 25 answers |
| Foible | 26 answers |
| Penury | 35 answers |
| impecuniousness | 35 answers |
| neediness | 35 answers |
| poorness | 35 answers |
| disadvantage | 35 answers |
| stiff neck | 37 answers |
| patchiness | 37 answers |
| beggarliness | 38 answers |
| incompetence | 38 answers |
| Indigence | 39 answers |
| dispossession | 39 answers |
| "Bankruptcy" | 39 answers |
| privation | 40 answers |
| impoverishment | 40 answers |
| insolvency | 41 answers |
| destitution | 43 answers |
| scarceness | 44 answers |
| meagreness | 49 answers |
| tightness | 49 answers |
| discolouration | 49 answers |
| rigidity | 50 answers |
| Arrears | 50 answers |
| abstinence | 51 answers |
| Malady | 51 answers |
| Indisposition | 52 answers |
| starvation | 53 answers |
| DEBIT ___ | 53 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
REAET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with DEFICIENCY (5)
Colonel Lloyd’s slaves were in the habit of spending a part of their nights and Sundays in fishing for oysters, and in this way made up the deficiency of their scanty allowance.
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The old Czechoslovakia, even though highly industrialized by East European standards, suffered from an aging capital plant, lagging technology, and a deficiency in energy and many raw materials.
Tried by this test, several of the Platonic Dialogues, according to our modern ideas, appear to be defective, but the deficiency is no proof that they were composed at different times or by different hands.
Knightley and some from her own heart, as to her deficiency—but none were equal to counteract the persuasion of its being very disagreeable,—a waste of time—tiresome women—and all the horror of being in danger of falling in with the second-rate and third-rate of Highbury, who were calling on them for ever, and therefore she seldom went near them.
Quotes with DEFICIENCY (3)
My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre and that I am therefore excused from saving universes.
He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are written which cannot be understood.
A person cannot direct his emotional life in the way he bids his motor system to reach for a cup. He cannot will himself to want the right thing or to love the right person or to be happy after a disappointment, or even to be happy in happy times. People lack this capacity not through a deficiency of discipline but because the jurisdiction of will is limited to the latest brain and to those functions within its purview. Emotional life can be influenced, but it cannot be commanded.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1983).