Word Finder - lacking

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To be without, to need, to require.

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My life lacks excitement.

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To be short (of or for something).

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He'll never lack for company while he's got all that money.

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To be in want.

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To see the deficiency in (someone or something); to find fault with, to malign, reproach.

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The absence of something; a lack.

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Missing or not having enough of (a good quality, etc).

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This cheese is lacking in pungency.

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Not carrying a firearm.

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Are you packing or lacking?

My point is, lacking knowledge is sometimes safer than possessing it.

Am I completely lacking in self discipline?

If anything is lacking, I will pay it to you.

Her rule in Parma, conjointly with Neipperg, was characterized by a clemency and moderation which were lacking in the other Italian states in that time of reaction.

Exact information in regard to the period of gestation of the female is still lacking, the length of the period being given from eighteen to twenty-two months by different authorities.

But this universal characteristic of apocalyptic is almost wholly lacking in the New Testament Apocalypse.

Only senseless things, lacking coherence, presented themselves one after another to Prince Andrew's mind.

Liverwort - a small flowerless green plant with leaf-like stems or lobed leaves, lacking true roots and reproducing by spores.

They seem to be almost entirely lacking in the north-east extremity, near Terranova, and in the mountains immediately to the north of Iglesias, though they are found to the north of the Perda de sa Mesa.

The population was at that time a little over 300,000; public security and education were alike lacking, and there were considerable animosities between different parts of the island.

The mythic element is practically lacking in the French legends, but in Germany some part of the Odin myth was associated with Charles's name.

Lacking his intensity of passion and his admirable faculty for seizing the most evanescent shades of difference in feeling, they degenerated into colourless and lifeless insipidities made insupportable by the frigid repetition of tropes and conceits which we are fain to pardon in the master.

Saying this, he ordered that ten gold pieces be given to the merchant in place of those that were lacking.

Something was lacking in them, they were not clear, they were too one-sidedly personal and brain-spun.

She did not compare them with him, but compared her feeling for them with her feeling for him, and felt with regret that there was something lacking in her feeling for young Nicholas.

The more apt analogy is that he introduced the oxygen so clearly lacking, way up in the rarified atmosphere of high-rise.

Sparse and lacking any extra features, this set includes a slightly rounded mirror over a flat tabletop.

The next option is for those who are lacking an Internet connection.

Compulsive hoarding is the act of collecting things uncontrollably and lacking the ability to throw anything away.

If you're lacking iron, your health care provider will prescribe you pills.

The king is not mentioned - which on Credner's view is explained by assuming that the plague fell in the minority of Joash, when the priest Jehoiada held the reins of power - and the princes, councillors and warriors necessary to an independent state, and so often referred to by the prophets before the exile, are altogether lacking.

The titles which ascribe four of the pilgrimage songs to David and one to Solomon are lacking in the true LXX., and inconsistent with the contents of the psalms. Better attested, because found in the LXX.

The last-named work, though lacking in original power and clearness of judgment, is extremely convenient and useful, and has had an influence perhaps disproportionate to its real exegetical merits.

The outlying parts of the county to east, south and north are not lacking in open spaces, but there is an extensive inner area where at most only small gardens and squares break the continuity of buildings, and where in some cases old churchyards serve as public grounds.

Lacking the support of the ultra-royalists, he was given the title of minister of state without portfolio, which was equivalent to a retirement.

The next year Piero but lacking in strength of character.

Most of these more or less directly improve the land by adding to it certain plant food constituents which are lacking, but the effect of each process is in reality very complex.

Nor was the king's aid lacking to this method of dividing up the royal authority, any more than to the immunity, for it became a frequent practice to make the administrative office into a fief, and to grant it to be held in that form of property by the count.

So long as they were fulfilled, he, and his heir after him, held the fief as his property, practically and in relation to all under tenants as if precarium and patrocinium were lacking.

These granite domes, lacking a harbour, lie about a mile apart, and the boundary line between the possessions of Russia and the United States passes between them.

If the calculation be carried farther backas has been done by the seismic disaster investigation committee of Japan, a body of scientists constantly engaged in studying these phenomena under government auspices,it is found that, since the countrys history began to be written in the 8th century AD,, there have been 2006 major disturbances; but inasmuch as 1489 of these occurred before the beginning of the Tokugawa administration (early in the 17th century, and therefore in an era when methods of recording were comparatively defective), exact details are naturally lacking.

But, on the whole, inscriptions before the Roman times were almost entirely lacking.

Hence we conclude that the grounds are lacking which would entitle our assuming a priori that the Apocalypse is pseudonymous.

Twelve years later he was, like Marsiglio, attacking the very foundations of the papacy itself, as lacking all scriptural sanction.

Tables, knives, forks and other prandial apparatus were as lacking as they were in the palaces of kings a few centuries before.

His style is severely academic, his colour lacking in richness and warmth, his execution hard and uninteresting in its very perfection.

Mantell in the Wealden formation of Sussex, and a large part of the skeleton, lacking the head, was subsequently discovered in a block of ragstone in the Lower Greensand near i Skeleton of Iguanodon bernissartensis.

Lacking in military enterprise, secluded and pleasure-loving, he seldom emerged from his palace life at Palermo.

Furthermore, the manufacturing schedule presupposes some uniformity in the method of accounting among different companies or lines of business, and this is often lacking.

Then, during Mary's reign, secret congregations met under the leadership of Protestant clergy, and, when these were lacking, even of laymen.

In counties lacking adequate hospital accommodation a poor person requiring medical or surgical treatment may be sent to the nearest hospital approved by the state board of charities.

On the other hand, the names of some famous nations mentioned on the inscriptions are lacking, from which it may be concluded that they did not rise to prominence till a later date.

Voices were not lacking which, in view of Austria's relatively small share in foreign investments, ascribed the deterioration of the trade balance to the fact that the public bodies were " living beyond their means."

West of the Missouri river the drift gives place to a fine soil of sand aid clay, with deposits of alluvium in the vicinity of streams. Though lacking in vegetable mould, these soils are generally capable of producing good crops where the water-supply is sufficient.

But, while lacking the medieval appearance of Fribourg or Bern, or Sion or Coire, the great number of modern fine buildings in Geneva, hotels, villas, &c., gives it an air of prosperity and comfort that attracts many visitors, though on others modern French architecture produces a blinding glare.

Above all, where, as at Athens, the decision of questions of sacred law fell not to the priests but to the college of i r ynrai, one great source of priestly power was wholly lacking.

Priestly acts - that is, acts done by one and accepted by the gods on behalf of many - are common to all antique religions, and cannot be lacking where the primary subject of religion is not the individual but the natural community.

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He was attacked by Flacius and Amsdorf, and after a long controversy, full of ambiguities and lacking in the exhibition of guiding principles, he was condemned because his statement savoured of Pelagianism.

His funeral monument at St Denis depicts a man with beardless, square-cut features, but lacking character and animation.