Noun
The act of falling, or coming short
The failure of a crop, or the like.
Neglect of, or failure in, performance of duty.
Source: Webster's dictionaryAs for population, every major shortcoming of our native planet could be traced to one cause: too many people, not enough planet. Robert A. Heinlein
A physical shortcoming could produce a kind of mental excess. The process, it seemed, was reversible. Mental excess could produce, for its own purposes, the voluntary blindness and deafness of deliberate solitude, the artificial impotence of asceticism. Aldous Huxley
I think that a failure of statistical thinking is the major intellectual shortcoming of our universities, journalism and intellectual culture. Steven Pinker
I always feel it is a shortcoming of mine as a reader and as a writer that I frankly need to like somebody. Ann Patchett
Kitsch tends to wallow in beauty - its shortcoming is not aesthetic, but ethical. Hermann Broch
A mans greatest shortcoming is that he neglects his own field and weeds that of others. Chinese Proverb