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'wholly lacking in' is correct and usable in written English
You can use this phrase when you want to emphasize that something is completely absent or lacking in an entity. For example: "The student's argument was wholly lacking in coherence."
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In support of this notion, people are not wholly lacking in regenerative powers.
Their pictures are bold, stark and wholly lacking in artistic merit.
Clearly then, adaptations for survival are not wholly lacking in the human species.
It is mild, wholly lacking in bitterness and has some very pleasing lemon flavours to it.
Mr. Keith said that everyone who knew Dotty "found her exceptionally good and wholly lacking in malice".
His Twitter is endlessly fascinating and endlessly mockable, wholly lacking in irony, whether he's boasting or confessing.
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In practice, though, the search for remnants of the meteor has become a haphazard, unregulated scramble, wholly lacking coordinated effort or scientific oversight in the collection of specimens from one of the most significant events in years for the community of scientists who study such things.
In charisma, he was wholly lacking.
The will to complete it — among the democratic political parties and the Maoists, as well as in India — appears to be wholly lacking.
Further support comes from in vivo data showing that AgRP administration to a transgenic mouse model wholly lacking hypothalamic POMC-derived peptides can still bring about changes in food intake and energy expenditure (17).
Evidence of a specific lesion of the brain or the central nervous system in any way attributable to the presence of alcohol is wholly lacking.
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