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
We see," said he, "how the defectiveness of ecclesiastical dogmas affects such a mind as Byron's, and how by such a piece he seeks to emancipate himself from doctrine which has been thrust on him.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 09 — Lives and Letters by Mee, Arthur
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
It could not indeed be otherwise; the defectiveness of the calendar must necessarily falsify all their records as to time.
