lacking

[ ˈlækɪŋ]

Definition:
1. Not existing.
2. Inadequate in amount or degree.

Use 'lacking' in a sentence:

1. A survey shows that 63% of employers say that recent college graduates don't have the skills they need to succeed and 25% of employers say that entry-level writing skills are lacking.
2. The book is completely lacking in originality.
3. It's difficult for teenagers who are generally lacking of experiences to have a clear vision for their future.
4. The first bite was a pleasant surprise, a little dry and lacking of taste, but at least a wing didn't get stuck in my throat.
5. What was lacking was a way of giving such images permanent form.
6. Increasingly lacking confidence about myself, I am nervous of the coming exam.
7. She's not usually lacking in confidence.
8. My mission is to encourage green hands and those lacking time or money to feed themselves.
9. Nowadays, there is often a lack of understanding between parents and children, which might result from lacking communication.
10. Those elements that allowed Borlaug's projects to succeed, such as well-organized economies and transportation and irrigation systems, were severely lacking throughout Africa.
11. In politics he's like a child, lacking in subtlety and experience.
12. Nothing is lacking for the plan.
13. Intermediated fossil forms, predicted by gradualism, are typically lacking.
14. Lacking a mirror image in the mother who raised me, I had to seek my identity as a woman on my own.
15. She felt nervous, increasingly lacking in confidence about herself.
16. "She is not lacking in intelligence," he muttered to himself.
17. In my opinion, most of those conflicts result from misunderstanding and lacking of communication.
18. A country lacking short-term liquidity would be loth to approach the IMF for a loan under the "stand-by arrangement", the mainstay of the IMF's crisis lending.
19. Not very long ago, it was also unthinkable that a virus would shut down nations and that safety nets would be proven so disastrously lacking in flexibility.
20. She was not lacking in courage.
21. The increased pressures of expanding populations have led to the removal of woody plants, so that many cities and towns are surrounded by large areas completely lacking in trees and shrubs.
22. What is lacking today is the conflict between adolescent's desire for autonomy and their understanding of an unsafe world.
23. Trade makes the country possible for her surplus manufactured goods to be traded abroad for the agricultural products that would otherwise be lacking.
24. The editor of the newspaper was condemned as lacking integrity.
25. My skin feels tight and lacking in moisture.
26. Why was military intelligence so lacking?
27. Lacking leadership, they could organize no defence against their oppressors.
28. These tasks were repetitive, lengthy and lacking any intrinsic interest.
29. I feel there is something lacking in my life.
30. Once again her life felt lacking in direction.