The phrase "a lack of refinement" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is unpolished, crude, or lacking sophistication.
Example: "The design of the product showed a lack of refinement, making it less appealing to potential customers."
Alternatives: "a deficiency in sophistication" or "an absence of polish."
So when Yes Bank, an Indian financial house, writes in a report on luxury in India that "the market will only explode as Indians become more and more refined in their tastes and preferences," one wonders if a lack of refinement is really the problem.
Actually, the problem didn't seem to be a lack of refinement.
The window sticker and warranty are undeniably attractive, but you pay the price in a lack of refinement.
Chin argues, however, that it is precisely a lack of refinement that makes Lego useful as a design tool.
The remaining discrepancy in some flames can be attributed to a lack of refinement in the CH chemistry.
There's some brazen playing to enjoy – the low brass in March to the Scaffold sound like a foghorn – but the impression of a lack of refinement is deceptive: the balance and pace are always tautly in check.
The ectopic expression of Zic2 in cRGCs leads to a lack-of-refinement phenotype of their axons, a defect that is partially reverted after application of fluoxetine indicating, at least in part, this phenotype is caused by induction of Sert.
Nabokov thought that Wilson's enthusiasm for "Doctor Zhivago," which appeared in English translation in 1958, showed a lack of critical refinement; and in 1965 Wilson published a review of Nabokov's translation of Pushkin's "Eugene Onegin" in which he recklessly challenged Nabokov's knowledge of Russian.
The exposure error due to a lack of spatial refinement in the exposure estimate is represented by δspatial = AQ – CS because our air quality models add spatial variability to the AQ metric compared with CS measurements, which lack spatial variability because the same CS measurement was used to represent exposure in each ZIP code.
The correlation of exposure error due to a lack of spatial refinement (δspatial) was moderate to strong for local local pollutant pairs (median correlation over all ZIP codes ranged from 0.65 to 0.76), and relatively weak for regional regional pollutant pairs (median correlation ranged from 0.03 to 0.21).
Next, we investigated whether the lack-of-refinement phenotype observed in the axons ectopically expressing Zic2 is due to the misexpression of Sert.
