Meanings of lamentably deficient in английском

In this particular, magnificence, I and those of my threadbare species are most lamentably deficient.

It is not commonly brilliant, too often lamentably deficient.

Nay, the very best Christian, how lamentably deficient is he in the spirit of prayer!

But she was lamentably deficient in domestic knowledge.

We have plenty of the first; we are for the most part lamentably deficient in the second.

It is the woman's part to exercise tact; she had proved herself lamentably deficient in that quality.

As a salesman, Lincoln was lamentably deficient.

From the great richness of writer; Italian abounds in synonyms, while French is lamentably deficient in this respect.

The colony was lamentably deficient in clergy, and the missions that existed were chiefly to the Hottentots and Bushmen.

The native appears to respect these characteristics perhaps all the more because he is so lamentably deficient in them himself.

He could perform the ordinary duties of a general satisfactorily, but he was lamentably deficient in those qualities which constitute military genius.

Expedients which looked simple beforehand were found lamentably deficient to cope with wild nature on the stupendous scale of this gloomy land.

If the American character may be judged by their conduct in this matter, they are most lamentably deficient in every feeling of honour and integrity.

She was indeed lamentably deficient in memory, a faculty which is proverbially said to be necessary to persons of the class to which she belonged.

His memory was lamentably deficient, and his utterance was thick and indistinct, so much so that he could scarcely be understood in reading or speaking.

"Lady Smigsmag's novel is amusing, but lamentably deficient in geological information." "Mr.