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wanting

 adjective
     
want‧ing [not before noun] formal
something that is wanting lacks or misses something that it needs or something that you expect it to have:
Their security procedures were found wanting.
wanting in
They were skilled, but wanting in discipline.
A certain humanity is wanting in big cities.
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