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- verb Present participle of
lack .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective inadequate in amount or degree
- adjective nonexistent
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Examples
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Tom gently probed the wound, his expression lacking optimism.
Rot & Ruin Jonathan Maberry 2010
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So having stress disorder was seen as lacking morals, hence the term lacking moral fibre?
lmf 2006
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Hannah hesitated, her expression lacking the assurance that had seemed so natural to her.
A Share in Death Deborah Crombie 1993
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What has been sorely lacking is the pastoral dimension.
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A middle layer of explanation has certainly been lacking from the start: the effort of persuasion that is neither inspirational nor tactical, where a leader tries to convert people to his side.
David Bromwich: The Dying Art of Political Explanation David Bromwich 2010
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A middle layer of explanation has certainly been lacking from the start: the effort of persuasion that is neither inspirational nor tactical, where a leader tries to convert people to his side.
David Bromwich: The Dying Art of Political Explanation David Bromwich 2010
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A middle layer of explanation has certainly been lacking from the start: the effort of persuasion that is neither inspirational nor tactical, where a leader tries to convert people to his side.
David Bromwich: The Dying Art of Political Explanation David Bromwich 2010
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What has been sorely lacking is the pastoral dimension.
Scripture 2009
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A middle layer of explanation has certainly been lacking from the start: the effort of persuasion that is neither inspirational nor tactical, where a leader tries to convert people to his side.
David Bromwich: The Dying Art of Political Explanation David Bromwich 2010
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A middle layer of explanation has certainly been lacking from the start: the effort of persuasion that is neither inspirational nor tactical, where a leader tries to convert people to his side.
David Bromwich: The Dying Art of Political Explanation David Bromwich 2010
Related Words
synonyms (121)
Words with the same meaning
- absconded
- absent
- adulterated
- arrested
- away
- bankrupt in
- bare of
- bereaved
- bereaved of
- bereft
- bereft of
- blemished
- callow
- cut off
- damaged
- defective
- deficient
- deleted
- denuded
- denuded of
- departed
- deprived of
- destitute of
- devoid
- devoid of
- disappeared
- divested
- embryonic
- empty of
- erroneous
- existless
- failing
- fallible
- faulty
- for want of
- forlorn of
- found wanting
- gone
- half-assed
- hypoplastic
- immature
- impaired
- imperfect
- imprecise
- impure
- in arrear
- in arrears
- in default
- in default of
- in short supply
- in want of
- inaccurate
- inadequate
- incompetent
- incomplete
- inexact
- infant
- inferior
- insufficient
- makeshift
- mediocre
- minus
- missing
- mixed
- needing
- negative
- no longer present
- nonattendant
- nonexistent
- not enough
- not found
- not perfect
- not present
- null
- off
- omitted
- out of
- out of pocket
- out of sight
- part
- parted from
- partial
- patchy
- robbed of
- sans
- scant
- scant of
- scanty
- scrappy
- shorn of
- short
- short of
- shy
- shy of
- sketchy
- stripped of
- subtracted
- taken away
- too little
- unblessed with
- underdeveloped
- undeveloped
- unequal to
- uneven
- unexisting
- unfinished
- unperfected
- unpossessed of
- unqualified
- unreached
- unsatisfactory
- unsatisfying
- unsound
- unsufficing
- unthorough
- vacuous
- vanished
- void
- void of
- wanting
- without being
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