defectively

ADVERB

badly

Synonyms

STRONGEST

awkwardly clumsily poorly

WEAK

abominably blunderingly carelessly crudely erroneously faultily feebly haphazardly imperfectly incompetently ineffectively ineptly maladroitly negligently shoddily stupidly unfavorably unfortunately unsatisfactorily unskillfully unsuccessfully weakly wrong wrongly

Antonyms

WEAK

adequately calmly little mildly morally

ADVERB

poorly

Synonyms

STRONGEST

badly crudely inadequately insufficiently

WEAK

incompetently inexpertly inferiorly meanly shabbily unsuccessfully

Antonyms

WEAK

satisfactorily well

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Defectively executed securities, settlements and advancements need no equivalent and need not be acted on in order to be reformed.

From An Introduction to the Philosophy of Law by Pound, Roscoe

defectively

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