Deficient

(adj.) inadequate in amount or degree; 'a deficient education'; 'deficient in common sense'; 'lacking in stamina'; 'tested and found wanting' .

(adj.) falling short of some prescribed norm; 'substandard housing' .

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• I never thought Mr. Darcy so deficient in the _appearance_ of it as you used to do. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• A deficient, ill-tempered, lowering, stupid fellow. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• I am happy you approved, said Emma, smiling; but I hope I am not often deficient in what is due to guests at Hartfield. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• You are extremely deficient in your facts. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• She was very pretty and not, I think, deficient in natural abilities, though it is really very good of me to say so; for she could not endure me! 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• I am deficient in self-confidence and decision, she said at last. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• She must be confident here, for God knows, she felt rejected and deficient enough elsewhere. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Bingley was by no means deficient, but Darcy was clever. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• In the Ateuchus or sacred beetle of the Egyptians, they are totally deficient. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• I hope, Marianne, continued Elinor, you do not consider him as deficient in general taste. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• How could I be so deficient in good taste? 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• If he change at all he can only change for the worse, for we cannot suppose him to be deficient either in virtue or beauty. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• She was, at such crises, sadly deficient in finished manner, though she had once been at school a year. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Caddy was not at all deficient in natural affection for her mother, but mentioned this with tears as an undeniable fact, which I am afraid it was. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• I always have been deficient in those qualities. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Why, it has been asked, if instinct be variable, has it not granted to the bee the ability to use some other material when wax was deficient? 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• If he were deficient there, nothing should make amends for it. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• It was being very deficient. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• Besides this, he was neither uneducated nor deficient. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• Not to be deficient in interest, Clennam asked what he might be doing there? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• It only shows her being deficient in something herself--sense or feeling. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• They will not be deficient in wit and _na?veté_; there is so much sparkle, and so little art in her soul? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• His skin was so unwholesomely deficient in the natural tinge, that he looked as though, if he were cut, he would bleed white. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• No, said Mr. Knightley, nearly at the same time; you are not often deficient; not often deficient either in manner or comprehension. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• A virtue in which few Englishmen are deficient, observes Mr. Tulkinghorn. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• My footman would have had her brought in by force; but force was the very thing in which the most particlerst man as is was most deficient. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.

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