Crossword-Solution: SHORTCOMING 11 letters, 53 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 19

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Word Word Type Definition
Shortcoming n. The act of falling, or coming short
Shortcoming n. The failure of a crop, or the like.
Shortcoming n. Neglect of, or failure in, performance of duty.

We have 53 clues for the answer “SHORTCOMING”

Clue Answers
an imperfection or lack that detracts from the whole 1 answer
Weakness arrivin'? 1 answer
Character flaw, say 1 answer
Character flaw 6 answers
defalcation 11 answers
Foible 26 answers
ought 33 answers
stiff neck 37 answers
should 37 answers
Defection 39 answers
answerable 44 answers
Nought 44 answers
goose egg 44 answers
Obligated 45 answers
tightness 49 answers
meagreness 49 answers
rigidity 50 answers
abstinence 51 answers
Malady 51 answers
blamable 51 answers
Accountable 51 answers
Indisposition 52 answers
starvation 53 answers
Must 53 answers
Cipher 55 answers
flaw 55 answers
Responsible 55 answers
Inflexibility 56 answers
paucity 57 answers
rightness 57 answers
aught 57 answers
shortfall 58 answers
Scarcity 61 answers
Poverty 61 answers
ailment 61 answers
Failing 62 answers
Hardness 62 answers
trusty 63 answers
austerity 64 answers
Dearth 65 answers
Nothing 67 answers
disease 67 answers
Capable 68 answers
Defect 69 answers
Deficiency 69 answers
ANYTHING ___ 69 answers
Immaturity 72 answers
Have ___ 75 answers
Bound 76 answers
Zero 76 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
A moving of the mind or soul; excitement of the feelings, whether pleasing or painful; disturbance or agitation of mind caused by a specific exciting cause and manifested by some sensible effect on the body.
Hint 2 anagram
NTMOOIE
Hint 3 another clue
A FEELING OF GREAT ELATION
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Sentences with SHORTCOMING (5)

The dearth of strong moral character, of unbending righteousness, he felt, was their great shortcoming, and here he would begin.
The Souls of Black Folk W. E. B. Du Bois 1996
That he was unusual, no one will deny; that he was the originator of many of China's greatest reform measures, is equally true; but that he lacked the power to execute what he conceived, and the ability to select great statesmen to assist him, seems to have been his chief shortcoming.
Court Life in China Isaac Taylor Headland 1996
Contemplating as I do the existence of the Artisans’ Committee, which not long ago considered the establishment of the Institute so sensibly, and supported it so heartily, I earnestly entreat the gentlemen—earnest I know in the good work, and who are now among us,—by all means to avoid the great shortcoming of similar institutions; and in asking the working man for his confidence, to set him the great example and give him theirs in return.
Speeches of Charles Dickens Charles Dickens 2014
Any departure from these canons of form is to be depreciated, not so much because it evinces a shortcoming in mechanical efficiency, or even that it shows an absence of the servile attitude and temperament, but because, in the last analysis, it shows the absence of special training.
The Theory of the Leisure Class Thorstein Veblen 1997
Thus, God is superior to all because he is the supreme giver, and the offerings of man fall short by an infinite distance of being a full return for the gifts of God; but gratitude in some degree makes up for this deficiency and shortcoming.
The History of Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 1997

Quotes with SHORTCOMING (3)

I have learned, that the person I have to ask for forgiveness from the most is: myself. You must love yourself. You have to forgive yourself, everyday, whenever you remember a shortcoming, a flaw, you have to tell yourself "That's just fine". You have to forgive yourself so much, until you don't even see those things anymore. Because that's what love is like.
C. JoyBell C.
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who s…
Theodore Roosevelt
You're not eating anything," said Marilla sharply, eying her as if it were a serious shortcoming. Anne sighed. I can't. I'm in the depths of despair. Can you eat whenyou are in the depths of despair?" I've never been in the depths of despair, so I can't say," responded Marilla. Weren't you? Well, did you ever try to IMAGINE you were inthe depths of despair?" No, I didn't." Then I don't think you can understand what it's like. It's very uncomfortable a feeling indeed.
L. M. Montgomery Anne of Green Gables
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