misfeature
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He has his winter too of Pale misfeature, Or else he would forego his mortal nature.
From Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends by Keats, John
Especially used for user-visible misbehavior caused by a bug or misfeature.
From The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 by Raymond, Eric S.
He has his Winter too of pale misfeature, Or else he would forego his mortal nature.
From The Golden Treasury Selected from the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language and arranged with Notes by Various
The complainant, if unconvinced, is likely to retort that the bug is then at best a misfeature.
From The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 by Steele, Guy L.
Like lossage but connotes that the failure is due to a designed-in misfeature rather than a simple inadequacy or a mere bug.
From The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 by Steele, Guy L.
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