Lacking and Punk

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Lacking adjective - Not coming up to an expected measure or meeting a particular need.

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Punk and lacking are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Punk" instead an adjective "Lacking".

Nearby Words: lack, lacked

Punk adjective - Falling short of a standard.

Usage example: she plays a punk game of tennis, so you won't have any trouble beating her

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Lacking and punk are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Lacking" instead an adjective "Punk".

Steam Punk: Though lacking actual steam engines, the Clacks in this book begins a trend of driving Ankh-Morpork from Medieval Stasis over to this setting.

Source: Discworld / The Fifth Elephant
Ménage à 3 pulls a nice comedy variant with Zii, the determinedly cool "punk rock chick" who, lacking a band or any other source of income, takes a job as "counter candy" in a comics shop, being "ogled by geeks" as she herself later puts it.

Source: Fallen-on-Hard-Times Job
The Futuristic Zone from The Crystal Maze has many early Nineties ideas of future technology, with good doses of Cyber Punk and Used Future, and lacking many of the technological advancements made since then.

Source: Zeerust

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