wanting in's Usage Examples:

the first edition of which contained some observations and ruminations (wanting in subsequent editions) that would foreshadow theories developed independently.

Lionel Cust described his work as "sketchy and wanting in strength, but full of refinement and true feeling.

compensation made or secured to the owner, is, upon principle and authority, wanting in the due process of law required by the fourteenth amendment of the constitution.

The Medici were wanting in male heirs; his father, Cosimo III, wanted the Electress Palatine to succeed.

"Emergency ambulance service found wanting in Mass".

He was never wanting in appreciation of what was right, and in his sympathy with the advanced.

York Times wrote that "this kind of a popular flower book has long been wanting in America.

Miracles from heaven were not wanting in testimony of his martyrdom; for a column of light shot up to heaven from.

being unconscious in despair of having a self, not wanting in despair to be oneself, and wanting in despair to be oneself.

called the book "poorly organised, burdened with unimportant details, wanting in style and poorly researched".

has been but little studied in an enlightened manner; and yet this is wanting in order to complete the history of human nature, and the philosophy of the.

The wager is wanting in Ransome's version, where Sadko is told by the Sea Tsar to draw the fish.

everything as it should be, and instructing the priests if they were found wanting in knowledge, and obliging all catechumens to attend instructions for twenty.

that, "we ought to have fuller details about Sif, and these are wholly wanting in our mythology.

line together, a quality which England's selectors have unhappily found wanting in nearly all the inside-forwards with whom they have experimented since.

Kupperman sees grounds for both conceptions, but finds them wanting in simple and general terms.

Synonyms:

humourous; facetious; humorous; bantering;

Antonyms:

humorless; displeasing; humourless; po-faced; unfunny;