Lacking and Shallow

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

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

Nearby Words: lack, lacked

Shallow adjective - Lacking significant physical depth.

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Lacking and shallow are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Lacking" instead an adjective "Shallow".

Nearby Words: shallowed, shallowing

He is rather shallow and lacking in emotion in the book; when Emma leaves him, he reacts as if it were nothing more than a mild inconvenience, and she assesses him as wanting her only for her money, which he doesn't dispute.

Source: Literature / A Murder Is Announced
I find it trite and shallow, to be generally lacking in skill as evident in your selection of weaponry.

Source: Lets Play / Gaming Garbage
What an immature, self-important, inflated, cruel, shallow little creature, lacking in empathy and contemptuous of anyone who was not himself or his lackey.

Source: Music / Bob Dylan

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