defective
adjective
Sometimes defected having a defect or flaw; faulty; imperfect.
defectiveness
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a word derived from
defective.
Example Sentences
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When I look at photographs of my 22-year-old self, so convinced of her own defectiveness, I see a perfectly normal girl and I think about aliens.
From The Guardian ● May 8, 2016
The standard reactions to her artistic defectiveness were masochistic joy and a perverse desire to share the spectacularly failed artwork with others.
From Slate ● Jan. 23, 2013
The distinction between irregularity and defectiveness has been foreshadowed.
From A Handbook of the English Language by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham
The reflecting part of America did not require this additional evidence of the sacrifice which had been made of national interest on the altars of state jealousy, to demonstrate the defectiveness of the existing system.
From The Life of George Washington, Vol. 4 Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War which Established the Independence of his Country and First President of the United States by John Marshall
And allowing their general defectiveness, how shall we explain, that, though gathered from all sides and by all kinds of people, they so uniformly favor education?
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865 by Various
