wanting in's Usage Examples:

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.

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.

Dissentient voices were not lacking; 'her style is wanting in sensibility and refinement.

Gookin be Library keeper : And that he enquire of persons formerly [con]cerned for finding out " restoring the book[s] found wanting in the last surveigh.

On some parts the upper side of the rugosities has coarse, short, riblike radiant striae, wanting in other places, perhaps by erosion.

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

He is also known for his International Economics, a former standard textbook, the first edition of which contained some observations and ruminations (wanting in subsequent editions) that would foreshadow theories developed independently by later scholars (such as the Balassa–Samuelson effect).

In 2015, an investigation by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project reported that Karimova had taken over US"1 billion in bribes from Scandinavian and Russian telecom companies wanting involvement in the Uzbek market.

popular taste because they were wanting in the grotesque humor and pathetic homeliness of style which characterized her prose works.

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

Hilary of Poitiers: The Lord suffers us at no time to be wanting in peaceableness of temper, and therefore bids us be reconciled to our adversary quickly.

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

Synonyms:

humourous, facetious, humorous, bantering,

Antonyms:

humorless, displeasing, humourless, po-faced, unfunny,