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Discover LudwigThe phrase "desperately lacking" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe something that is in short supply and desperately needed in a given context. For example, "The school was desperately lacking supplies to help its students succeed."
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Housing was desperately lacking.
We are desperately lacking in the latter".
But we are desperately lacking long term-thinking on maintenance.
Most responses we have seen thus far, however, are desperately lacking any sense of this significance.
And just as gay rights was once seen as the preserve of the "loony left", trans people are desperately lacking in influential media allies.
Backed by six equally listless dancers, with Nuno Bettancourt from Extreme doing the occasional widdly guitar solo, she's desperately lacking in dynamism.
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"We desperately lack competition," Prokhorov said.
But Barça still desperately lack a goalscorer.
Charm is the quality that this film most desperately lacks.
Compared to his tweets, this desperately lacks personality.
Hydrangeas and rhododendrons work, but the garden still desperately lacks colour.
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