as in defective
having a fault
a flawed paint job that resulted in some peeling almost as soon as the paint had dried
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as in damaged
to reduce the soundness, effectiveness, or perfection of
that crack has flawed the vase to the extent that its value in the antiques market is greatly reduced
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Recent Examples of flawed
Hanna Rosin,
The Atlantic,
2 July 2026
Quotas remained high, based on flawed and wildly optimistic population estimates.
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Encyclopedia Britannica,
30 June 2026
Jakob Rodgers,
Mercury News,
3 June 2026
Black women get to be flawed in this world.
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Candice Frederick,
HollywoodReporter,
1 June 2026
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Adjective
The leaders, for the most part, are flawed but have good intentions.
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Hanna Rosin,
The Atlantic,
2 July 2026
Quotas remained high, based on flawed and wildly optimistic population estimates.
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Encyclopedia Britannica,
30 June 2026
Verb
His lawsuit, filed May 27, alleges his June 1991 death sentence was flawed from the start after nine Black people were kept from serving on the jury.
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Jakob Rodgers,
Mercury News,
3 June 2026
Black women get to be flawed in this world.
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Candice Frederick,
HollywoodReporter,
1 June 2026
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The rash was much milder in mice bred with defective itch-sensing nerve cells.
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The plaintiffs have also accused Bayer of negligence and misrepresentation of Roundup's safety in its marketing, and have alleged that the product was defective for its intended purpose.
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Residential buildings were badly damaged in the assault, leaving people trapped in multi-story apartment blocks and an entire family that was killed pulled from the rubble, while cars were seen burning on city streets.
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As a bonus, those seasons are ideal for planting a replacement shrub or re-establishing a lawn if it is damaged during the shrub removal.
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Our relationship was complicated, deep, imperfect—and profoundly formative.
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The technology is asking you to be a competent conversation partner with a highly intelligent but imperfect entity.
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Already, reports of sparse crowds have marred the Freedom 250’s Great American State Fair on the National Mall, the Daily Beast said.
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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's trip to the United Kingdom is already marred by drama after reports circulated that the visit was canceled due to security concerns.
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That if you were deemed, as an enslaved person, if you were deemed troublesome or in some way unwanted, you would literally be sold down the river from the more northern states to the deeper south where you would potentially be treated even worse.
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Offer Real Value, Not Leftovers Most product bundles fail not because the idea is bad but because the execution misses what consumers actually want.
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In a later post on Telegram, Klitschko said Kyiv also came under ballistic missile attack, with five people injured in one of the central districts.
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The Tacoma Fire Department (TFD) later said no firefighters or residents were injured.
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If the boundary between them is compromised, the church too will become coercive.
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But if that account gets compromised, those details become part of the damage.
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In the nation’s gravest hour, the country’s authoritarian regime has crippled an effective response, say survivors, rescue workers and former officials.
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This comes at a dire time for Venezuela, which is still deep in political and financial crisis – being led by an interim government after US forces captured President Nicolás Maduro earlier this year, and facing an economy crippled by years of hyperinflation.
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“Flawed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flawed. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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