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

Yet there is a defectiveness in all the rules that natural reason can reach unto.

From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Binning, Hugh

Why? because it is simply a sign of defectiveness in the creature which the ages will rectify.

From Autobiographical Sketches by Besant, Annie Wood

The distinction between irregularity and defectiveness has been foreshadowed.

From A Handbook of the English Language by Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)