I need a word

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I need a word that doesn’t have a negative sound but has a negative meaning, to be used in this sentence:

This website is ISO 9001 non-compliant.

It’s the non-compliancy that’s the problem. I want to avoid un, not, non, etc.

Ideas please.

Thanks

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This website is borked.

This website is ISO 9001 challenged.

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Nice word but I want to keep the reference to ISO.

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Falls outside of ISO 9001 guidelines?

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lacks: This website lacks ISO 9001 compliance. :ponder: Not great, but it avoids yer negs.

This website is pre-ISO 9001. :stuck_out_tongue:

This website falls afoul of ISO 9001 standards. :smiley:

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[quote=“Big Fluffy Matthew”]This website is borked.

This website is ISO 9001 challenged.[/quote]

Did you add that second line while I was typing my reply, or did I fail to notice it?

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[quote=“Loretta”][quote=“Big Fluffy Matthew”]This website is borked.

This website is ISO 9001 challenged.[/quote]

Did you add that second line while I was typing my reply, or did I fail to notice it?[/quote]I thought of it later and added it, possibly while you were typing your reply.

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[quote=“Loretta”]I need a word that doesn’t have a negative sound but has a negative meaning, to be used in this sentence:

This website is ISO 9001 non-compliant.

It’s the non-compliancy that’s the problem. I want to avoid un, not, non, etc.

Ideas please.

Thanks[/quote]

This website is pre-ISO 9001.

EDIT. DAMN, I’m slow!

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[quote=“irishstu”]This website is pre-ISO 9001.[/quote] :raspberry: copycat!

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This website is applying for ISO 9001 certification.

This website is in process of becoming ISO 9001 certified.

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This website is a bag of shite, ISO-9001-speaking.

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This website chooses to avoid pansy-assed ISO 9001 compliance.

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[quote=“Omniloquacious”]This website is applying for ISO 9001 certification.

This website is in process of becoming ISO 9001 certified.[/quote]

No it bloody isn’t!

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Whilst this website may, indeed, have met ISO 9001 compliance in the past, it should be readily apparent to even the most casual observer that such compliancies have been absquatulated with in the interim by party or parties unknown.

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No it bloody isn’t![/quote]

Alright, then, here’s another way to put it:

This website is fully, completely and in all material respects ISO 9001 compliant, except insofar as may be otherwise under strict application of the criteria for the ascertainment thereof.

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[quote=“Loretta”]I need a word that doesn’t have a negative sound but has a negative meaning, to be used in this sentence:

This website is ISO 9001 non-compliant.

It’s the non-compliancy that’s the problem. I want to avoid un, not, non, etc.

Ideas please.

Thanks[/quote]

Wait! I’ve got it!

“This website is anything but ISO 9001 compliant.”

Thank you very much.

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This website is fully, completely and in all material respects ISO 9001 compliant, except insofar as may be otherwise under strict application of the criteria for the ascertainment thereof, including with regards to the matter of actual registration for compliance and the concommitant right to use the relevant logo on promotional material such as this website.

Too long. I prefer the paddy’s version.

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[quote=“irishstu”]Wait! I’ve got it!

“This website is anything but ISO 9001 compliant.”

Thank you very much.[/quote]

How about this: This website is all but ISO 9001 compliant.

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Yes! Take THAT, posh Englander!

What’s my prize?

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ISO 9001?
Why use a word when you can punctuate?