imperfect
adjective
relating to or characterized by defects or weaknesses.
imperfectness
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a word derived from
imperfect.
Example Sentences
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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
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 William Savage Johnson
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 Samuel Johnson
