defectiveness
Example Sentences
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When I look at photographs of my 22-year-old self, so convinced of her own defectiveness, I see a perfectly normal girl and I think about aliens.
From The Guardian ● May 8, 2016
The standard reactions to her artistic defectiveness were masochistic joy and a perverse desire to share the spectacularly failed artwork with others.
From Slate ● Jan. 23, 2013
There descended upon her the full weight of her forebodings—the superstitious dread that was typical of her emotional defectiveness, and that had its origin, perhaps, in those two unhappy persons who had been her parents.
From Sacrifice by Stephen French Whitman
An inadequate idea, however, is not in itself an error; it becomes such only when, unconscious of its defectiveness, we take it for complete and true.
From History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Richard Falckenberg
Mademoiselle de Tourville, I should state, spoke English exceedingly well as far as the rules of syntax and the meanings of words went, and with an accent charming in its very defectiveness.
From The Experiences of a Barrister, and Confessions of an Attorney by Samuel Warren
