The phrase "absolutely lacking" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to emphasize a complete absence of something, often in a critical context.
Example: "The report was absolutely lacking in any substantial evidence to support its claims."
Alternatives: "completely devoid" or "entirely missing".
The Chilean foreign minister, Ignacio Walker, ridiculed the asylum application, calling it "surrealistic" and "absolutely lacking any basis".
"We hope that the US rejects this petition," said the Chilean foreign minister, Ignacio Walker, who said the asylum request was "absolutely lacking any basis".
How insensitive, how absolutely lacking in compassion these people are in their dealings". Sheedy told Guardian Australia they wanted "honesty" from this public hearing and "no more platitudes".
Norwegian Wood's enduring popularity with adolescent and 20-something readers rests on the simple insights into death, loss and griefs it conveys, so absolutely lacking from the youth culture that dominates the mass media.
And it has to be true, as he claimed, that the peculiarities of British art - strong on landscape but absolutely lacking, in its entire history, a single artist of the human body to compare to Picasso, or Michelangelo, or Degas - must say something about the nation's emotional history.
On the door step, they were unfailingly courteous (except when they tried to ram your car and drive it off a beach road); absolutely lacking the humour gene; meticulous about tiny details like license plate numbers; and hayseed-ignorant of "context" or of anything much beyond J Edgar's emotional horizon.
"It absolutely lacks credibility".
It absolutely lacks the taut, virginal squeak of freshness.
Those films had plenty of Gilliam's trademark visual invention; what they absolutely lacked was the smallest notion of how to tell a story.
But I absolutely lack something which is obviously a deep part of the engagement of real football fans – the ability to suspend disbelief so that I feel I am in some way present on the pitch myself.
This is all good fun, but my adamant stance, that I absolutely lack any authority, is key: because this is not about one man's opinion, and there is nothing even slightly technical or complicated about the evidence on homeopathy, or indeed anything, when it is clearly explained.
