Lacking and Spare

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

Usage example: we felt the afternoon television offerings were somewhat lacking in entertainment value

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Spare and lacking are semantically related in scanty topic. In some cases you can use "Spare" instead an adjective "Lacking".

Nearby Words: lack, lacked

Spare adjective - Less plentiful than what is normal, necessary, or desirable.

Usage example: spare vegetation that made foraging very difficult

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Lacking and spare are semantically related in scanty topic. Sometimes you can use "Lacking" instead an adjective "Spare".

Nearby Words: spar, sparing, spared, sparely

Spare a thought for the early Soviet VDV, who, lacking cargo aircraft with such bourgeois luxuries as enclosed fuselages, had to deploy like this all the time.◊

Source: Ejection Seat
Unlike most depictions of this trope, though, Bucky is relatively well-adjusted, lacking the sociopathic attitude of most child soldiers and willing to show mercy and spare prisoners.

Source: Comic Book / Captain America: Winter Soldier
He also fits the Trope by virtue of being a Spare to the Throne, and thus lacking the training a king normally would receive before taking on the job.

Source: Action Survivor

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