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shortcoming

noun as in weak point

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It also requires that liberals think differently about politics and not interpret every Obama shortcoming as some kind of sellout.

It was a classic case of admitting a shortcoming and making it a strength.

I saw PTSD not as some mental defect or shortcoming inside myself, but instead as an enemy.

As long as they believed Saraswati was infallible, any dissatisfaction they experienced was a personal shortcoming.

Then he can only look his love and loyalty, wistfully, as if he felt his own shortcoming in the matter of speech.

It came to that at last, that I could not bear to speak to him of any shortcoming as to one of his own clergymen.

Their discretion was regarded 'as a certain cure for every shortcoming of the law and every evil arising out of it.'

Still, no hesitation or serious shortcoming appeared in their fulfilment of duties.

But it must be allowed that democracy stood for a great deal in our shortcoming.

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On this page you'll find 70 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to shortcoming, such as: defect, deficiency, drawback, failing, fault, and flaw.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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