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That America is not merely feared but also respected is, he argues, proof that it has done something right even in its imperfectness.

From New York Times Nov. 12, 2020

They are all weird and imperfect and amazing in their weird imperfectness.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 17, 2020

It’s a description of a struggle, my struggle, and it is everyday life, misunderstandings and failings and the whole world of imperfectness.

From Reuters Sep. 11, 2014

For my part, I generally took the author’s meaning to be as you have explained it; yet their authority, joined to the knowledge of my own imperfectness in the language, overruled me.

From The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II by Johnson, Samuel

The cause of your being ill at ease is the profound imperfectness of your social civilization.

From Selections from the Prose Works of Matthew Arnold by Johnson, William Savage