Failing and Little

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Failing adjective - Below acceptable in performance.

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Little and failing are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Little" instead an adjective "Failing".

Nearby Words: fail, failure, failed

Little adjective - Having relatively little height.

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Failing and little are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Failing" instead an adjective "Little".

Nearby Word: littleness

When the predictable civil unrest started, he blamed the Imperium for demanding too much of these worlds while giving back too little and failing to defend them.

Source: Tabletop Game / Only War
Hector the Bulldog, when not punishing Sylvester for trying to eat a sweet innocent little bird, is physically threatening him for failing to catch a (supposedly) similar harmless little mouse.

Source: Alternative Character Interpretation / Western Animation
Further, there is little penalty to failing the roll to cheat, so there is little reason to not try it every single time you cover the opponent.

Source: Web Video / Counter Monkey

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