imperfect

Even an imperfect messenger is capable of delivering news everyone needs to hear.

Though the grand jury is an imperfect forum for resolving social issues, it works very well in finding truth.

There was a fear growing inside of me that my imperfect bruised college experience was a reflection of my own damaged self.

The problem was that, at least in Iowa, this model was imperfect.

Himmler, for example, wanted to drop the imperfect British pounds on the United Kingdom by airplane.

Where these overtones are interfered with by any imperfection in the instrument the result is a harsh or imperfect sound.

We suffer, nearly all of us, from a lack of quantitative grasp and from an imperfect grasp of form.

A coquette is said to be an imperfect incarnation of Cupid, as she keeps her beau, and not her arrows, in a quiver.

On the part of the believer, his faith and imperfect obedience, though necessary, are not a condition.

This description is only imperfect in this point that sufficient stress is not laid on the words fall off.