Meanings of singular want in English

The court acted with a singular want of discretion in appointing them.

She had been wounded then by her brother's singular want of tact or feeling.

They seem to grow out of a singular want of knowledge of the organism of the human mind.

Such a singular want of good breeding in a gentleman of his rank impressed me, I own, very painfully.

But there is a singular want of vegetable decay in the interior of New Holland, and that powerfully argues its recent origin.

And between the veterans of the one generation and the young recruits of the next there was a singular want of writers of distinction.

A vague solemnity pervaded the introductory proceedings, and a singular want of sociability was visible in the "sociable" part of the entertainment.

And when you talk about his ribs showing so plainly through his sides, you prove that you have a very singular want of taste.

A singular want of accuracy characterises all the records, but it is safe to say that her children were some eighteen or nineteen in number.