Fair
Fair adjective - Of average to below average quality.
Usage example: for what they charged us, the painters should have done better than a fair job of painting the house
Wanting
Wanting adjective - Falling short of a standard.
Usage example: we tried her cooking and found it to be very wanting
Both words in one sentence
- On the more positive side of things, wanting life to be fair and thus striving towards an admittedly impossible ideal is seen as a virtue of our race.
Source: Life Isn't Fair -
Although, to be fair, there was Selphie, and Quistis, and... you know what, I think it was a case of everybody wanting everybody else.
Source: Two Guys and a Girl - To be fair though, you can't really blame him for not wanting to speak out in a war meeting again.
Source: My Master, Right or Wrong
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