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Definition of Shortcomings
1. shortcoming [n] - See also: shortcoming
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shortcomings
Literary usage of Shortcomings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on the System of Evidence in Trials at Common Law: Including the by John Henry Wigmore (1915)
"But the professional, the essentially judicial, shortcomings, will never be ...
This is why the shortcomings that are going to remain habitual are more to ..."
2. The Invasion of the Crimea: Its Origin and an Account of Its Progress Down by Alexander William Kinglake (1863)
"Cause of It would be unjust to look upon the action between on the i uirt any
shortcomings Marshal St Arnaud and the Russian left wing as a of the fair ..."
3. Famous Composers and Their Works by John Knowles Paine, Theodore Thomas, Karl Klauser (1891)
"Whatever his faults and shortcomings may have been, this charge of cruelty and
neglect toward his wife and family is totally devoid of foundation. ..."
4. Scientific Management and Labor by Robert Franklin Hoxie (1915)
"Causes of the shortcomings of Scientific Management in Practice The foregoing
... Doubtless, many of its shortcomings will, therefore, be cured by time. ..."
5. The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind by Herbert George Wells (1921)
"shortcomings of Socialism as a Scheme of Human Society. § 6. How Darwinism Affected
Religious and Political Ideas. ..."
6. The Works of Tennyson by Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Hallam Tennyson Tennyson (1905)
"But the terms of the Religious Peace concealed other shortcomings of a kind which
in such documents are not always chargeable to incompetent draughtsmanship ..."
7. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1907)
"But the terms of the Religious Peace concealed other shortcomings of a kind which
in such documents are not always chargeable to incompetent draughtsmanship ..."
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