not up to scratch (adjective) deficient: imperfect, inadequate
Detalii: defective means having a defect or fault, while deficient means inadequate or lacking in amount or degree
Sinonime: beguilement,
betrayal, blarney, boondoggle,
cheat, circumvention, cozenage, craftiness, cunning, deceit, deceitfulness, deceptiveness, defraudation,
dirt, disinformation, dissimulation, double-dealing, dupery, duplicity,
equivocation, falsehood, fast one, flimflam, fraud, fraudulence, guile, hokum,
hypocrisy, imposition, insincerity, juggling, legerdemain,
lying, mendacity,
pretense, prevarication, snow job, sophism, treachery,
treason, trickery, trickiness, trumpery, untruth
Antonime: frankness,
honesty,
honor,
openness, trustworthiness,
truth, truthfulness, uprightness