The phrase "lacking in style" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe something that is perceived as not having elegance, flair, or aesthetic appeal.
Example: "The presentation was informative but ultimately lacking in style, making it difficult to engage the audience."
Alternatives: "devoid of style" or "unrefined in appearance."
Retailers peddling cheap and badly made clothes, totally lacking in style, add to the problem.
While lacking in style points, New Orleans set a franchise record for wins in a season, clinched a first-round bye in the postseason and moved a step closer to home-field advantage throughout the National Football Conference playoffs.
While its site has always housed plenty of good content (a fabulous clickable map of the UK's poetry landmarks, with links to everything from venues in Newcastle to bookshops in Wales; an indispensable list of upcoming publications), its delivery, up til now, has been clunky, creaky and lacking in style.
It was utterly lacking in style, but it offered four-wheel drive in an age when front-wheel drive was unique, and a huge interior so you could carry nearly any size load.
When it was built, many critics called the building too extreme, and lacking in style.
Seeing Karina and Maksim on stage next to the rest of the company drove home how inappropriate and lacking in style and soul their tangos actually are.
But what It lacks in style, it makes up with sound quality and battery life.
It's never less than absorbing, and what it lacks in style it makes up for in substance.
Lewis was never much of an artist, but what he lacked in style he made up for with social observation.
"We are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style," says The Player, in Stoppard's "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead".
She isn't an exceptional dancer, like the young Chita Rivera, but what she lacks in style she makes up for in attack.
