found wanting

THESAURUS

found wanting

adulterated, blemished, damaged, defective, deficient, erroneous, failing, fallible, faulty, immature, impaired, imperfect, imprecise, impure, inaccurate, inadequate, incompetent, incomplete, inexact, insufficient, lacking, makeshift, mediocre, mixed, not enough, not perfect, off, partial, patchy, short, sketchy, too little, undeveloped, unequal to, uneven, unfinished, unperfected, unqualified, unsatisfactory, unsatisfying, unsound, unsufficing, unthorough, wanting

ROGET THESAURUS

found wanting

Imperfection

N imperfection, imperfectness, deficiency, inadequacy, peccancy, immaturity, fault, defect, weak point, screw loose, flaw, gap, twist, taint, attainder, bar sinister, hole in one's coat, blemish, weakness, half blood, shortcoming, drawback, seamy side, mediocrity, no great shakes, no great catch, not much to boast of, one-horse shay, imperfect, not perfect, deficient, defective, faulty, unsound, tainted, out of order, out of tune, cracked, leaky, sprung, warped, lame, injured, peccant, frail, inadequate, crude, incomplete, found wanting, below par, short-handed, below its full strength, under its full strength, below its full complement, indifferent, middling, ordinary, mediocre, average, so-so, coucicouci, milk and water, tolerable, fair, passable, pretty well, pretty good, rather good, moderately good, good, good enough, well enough, adequate, decent, not bad, not amiss, inobjectionable, unobjectionable, admissible, bearable, only better than nothing, secondary, inferior, second-rate, second-best, one-horse, almost, to a limited extent, rather, pretty, moderately, passing, only, considering, all things considered, enough, surgit amari aliquid.