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How to use lacking in in a sentence

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You are a bad-tempered, petulant and irritable man lacking in your professional duties to your patients.
One expert calls some champagne that spent almost 50 years underwater in the English Channel absolutely fine, though lacking in fizz.
I attended only the plenary of the same title and found it lacking in the vibrancy that characterized much of the rest of the conference.
He stares out at us from photographs and self-portraits, bald, bearded and utterly lacking in flamboyance.
While Galambos' black and white pen drawings at times seem a little scratchy and lacking in polish, he has a nice sense of design.
A good number of police officers continuously patrol the Bangla strip at night, offering a sense of security sometimes lacking in Pattaya.
The supplements on Disc Two are surprisingly thin and lacking in substance.
People don't see them as lacking in smarts, wit or attractiveness but as haughty and detached.
The villain is so lacking in character or interest that he seems secondary.
It is a conservative community with attractive clusters of Jugendstil villas, but on the whole is conspicuously lacking in charm.
But in the very same essay, Macaulay supposes Bacon the man to be thoroughly deceitful, self-seeking, and lacking in moral fibre.
It all feels so lacking in genuine feeling, genuine emotion, genuine interest.
He doesn't put Austen on a pedestal and he doesn't make a film that is pretty as a picture but lacking in any sense of vitality.
While that kind of experience has been lacking in Ireland, it has begun to feed through from larger firms, Sandys said.
The result certainly gives the Parliament an unkempt, unloved appearance lacking in maintenance.
He seemed to me to be really old, but even in death to be lacking in that common frailty I tended to view all the elderly as possessing.
While lacking in merit as a decision-maker, he was extremely adroit in working the congressional funding process.
But if some of the former residents were lacking in self control the children greeting the Princess were on their best behaviour.
It was puny, totally lacking in the requisite shot of caffeine direct to the brain.
That injects his analysis with a tough-minded realism that is often lacking in challenges to the hawkish view of the world.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Orlando Guise's mother was lacking in the caution which mothers generally have where their men-children are concerned.
He would have been glad to do this each day, had not Miss Alvira proved to be lacking in delicacy.
In proportion as he excels in billiards he will be lacking in business, and vice versa.
Extremely clever at any form of brainwork, she was gauche and brusque in her manners, and totally lacking in perception.
This circlet is lacking in aphids that are rarely or never visited by ants.
She was inclined to be fussy and self-important and lacking in self-reliance.
A couple of weeks ago The Globe accused me editorially of being lacking in love for Beatrice.
The Toynbee Hall excursionist would find the snow lacking in the radiance that had dazzled him.
He was not used to dealing with men of any age so utterly lacking in gameness.
Bloodshed was the only thing lacking in this shikar, at least I cannot recall any.
And not only are these gone, but we are lacking in a knowledge of Hebrew phraseology.
I have no reverence for the Trust, but I am not lacking in reverence for the sincerities of the lay membership of the new Church.
The sinner is only a being who is without strength because he is lacking in grace.
The female is heterozygous for a dominant factor which is lacking in the male.
Straight planes were tried for a time, but found greatly lacking in the power of sustentation.
Such remarks from the mouth of terrae Filius are indeed quiet, but however lacking in sparkle, they are filled with the truth.
Emma had no guile in her disposition and was utterly lacking in self-assertion.
To such, Douglas must have seemed unemotional, unsensitive, and lacking in spiritual fineness.
Strictly speaking, this is not an orange-tip because the orange color is lacking in both sexes.
Avoid lack of white on the neck in both sexes and avoid females which are lacking in penciling.
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