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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
wanting
adjective
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be found wanting
▪ The policy has been severely tested over the last 16 months and has been found wanting.
▪ Both were confidently given and both were found wanting.
▪ Faced with these twin assaults on his ego it was hardly surprising that many players were found wanting.
▪ Improvements can be made in the light of performance and composers may discard or destroy compositions which are found wanting.
▪ It's a long time since Donegal were found wanting in so many key areas.
▪ The toilets were found wanting as well.
▪ Until Nikos was found wanting Owen would continue to trust him.
▪ When the match was found wanting, he was able to proceed to non-spherical planets, and so on.
▪ With the result that pure deduction is found wanting.
without wanting/wishing to do sth
▪ Without wanting to, Rose was drawn to watch.
▪ Without wishing to be demeaning, computer literacy and competence is not particularly high on the list of archival training.
▪ Without wishing to scare you unduly, you should be aware that sharks do lurk out there.
▪ Without wishing to tempt providence in any way, we appear to have got away lighting in so far as Winter is concerned.
▪ He had had enough experience of strangers probing his own hurts without wanting to pry into those of others.
▪ Lying in bed, she thought of him without wanting to hurt him at all.
▪ She sank deep down again, unable to stay alert, and saw without wanting to a giant Catherine-wheel in the sky.
▪ The expectation from government industrial ReD is one of reducing dependency on imports without wanting to achieve self-sufficiency.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wanting

Want \Want\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Wanted; p. pr. & vb. n. Wanting.]

  1. To be without; to be destitute of, or deficient in; not to have; to lack; as, to want knowledge; to want judgment; to want learning; to want food and clothing.

    They that want honesty, want anything.
    --Beau. & Fl.

    Nor think, though men were none, That heaven would want spectators, God want praise.
    --Milton.

    The unhappy never want enemies.
    --Richardson.

  2. To have occasion for, as useful, proper, or requisite; to require; to need; as, in winter we want a fire; in summer we want cooling breezes.

  3. To feel need of; to wish or long for; to desire; to crave. `` What wants my son?''
    --Addison.

    I want to speak to you about something.
    --A. Trollope.

Wanting

Wanting \Want"ing\, a. Absent; lacking; missing; also, deficient; destitute; needy; as, one of the twelve is wanting; I shall not be wanting in exertion.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
wanting

early 14c., wantand, "deficient, lacking," present participle adjective from want (v.). Modern spelling from 16c.

Wiktionary
wanting

  1. absent or lacking. n. The state of wanting something; desire. prep. without v

  2. (present participle of want English)

WordNet
wanting

  1. adj. not existing; "innovation has been sadly lacking"; "character development is missing from the book" [syn: lacking(p), missing, nonexistent, wanting(a)]

  2. inadequate in amount or degree; "a deficient education"; "deficient in common sense"; "lacking in stamina"; "tested and found wanting" [syn: deficient, lacking(p), wanting(p)]

Wikipedia
Wanting (novel)

Wanting is a 2008 novel by Australian author Richard Flanagan.

Usage examples of "wanting".

I cannot follow your advice, as by doing so I should be wanting in politeness to Nina, who likes to see me and gives me a warm welcome.

He felt she was hiding something and that her reasons for not wanting to consummate their marriage were detailed and involved, maybe because she was saving herself for an annulment or another man.

At that point, they may find themselves with split loyalties: on the one hand, to defend the prime law of the anthropic cosmos, while at the same time, not wanting to surrender their misguided but nevertheless human peers into the claws of a great evil.

She joined him, already tingling, anticipating, and wanting him so much.

In all of my fights -- with the possible exception of the bargemaster with the knife and the Christian hunter with his flechette gun -- I had held something back, not wanting to hit them as hard as I could, not wanting to hurt them too badly.

Unhappily, the baronet, who by some fatality never could see when he was winning the battle, thought proper in his wisdom to water the dryness of his sermon with a little jocoseness, on the subject of young men fancying themselves in love, and, when they were raw and green, absolutely wanting to be--that most awful thing, which the wisest and strongest of men undertake in hesitation and after self-mortification and penance-- married!

He maintained a slight version of his blurring shield, not wanting to be seen nor to draw attention.

Seeing how badly he was wanting them, I worked him around to trading me galloglaiches three for one, then paid the hire of some bonnaghts he was not using just then and went on me way to the Kingdom of Ros Commain.

She seemed to come for entire minutes, wanting to push Brok away yet wanting to pull him closer and force his head down harder on her tits.

He had tried hard to avoid homonyms, wanting to reserve the confusion of words that sounded alike but meant different things until they shared a larger vocabulary.

Litho forges by lithography, a printing process using stone developed two centuries ago by Aloys Senefelder, a mediocre playwright wanting to facsimile his plays on the cheap.

So furious with Mandrill, wanting to lash out at him, she could have made a mistake.

She had no time for reflection, however, for now Miss Chalmers and the Misses Melks closed in, wanting to know every detail of the fictitious betrothal.

Then he would walk to the metro and head for the bookstall, where he would pretend to be a student wanting to buy a foreign videotape machine.

But lately it was rumored Galucci was having a midlife crisis, wanting to make more of a name for himself, pushing his associates around.