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Defect
"Defect" in a Sentence (17 examples)
To be perfect she lacked just one defect.
For nothing is so beautiful but that it betrays some defect on close inspection.
If it were not for this defect, I should hire him at once.
What defect can you find in the present system of education?
There must be a defect in the experimental method.
He works fast and is very articulate but his insincerity is his biggest defect.
An inner defect never fails to express itself outwardly.
He has a defect in his character.
A quick temper is the only defect in her character.
Carelessness was looked on as a serious defect.
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a defect in the ear or eye; a defect in timber or iron; a defect of memory or judgment
Among boys little tenderness is shown to personal defects.
But ever since the concept of "hamartia" recurred through Aristotle's Poetics, in an attempt to describe man's ingrained iniquity, our impulse has been to identify a telling defect in those brought suddenly and dramatically low.
Another major defect of the current literature dealing with the nomenclature of hybrid forms of English is the scant attention paid to the question of frequency.
and the indefatigable application with which they have supplied the defects of early culture.
Capitalizing on the restive mood, Mr. Farage, the U.K. Independence Party leader, took out an advertisement in The Daily Telegraph this week inviting unhappy Tories to defect. In it Mr. Farage sniped that the Cameron government — made up disproportionately of career politicians who graduated from Eton and Oxbridge — was “run by a bunch of college kids, none of whom have ever had a proper job in their lives.”
Passing through Thailand, she submitted a handwritten statement agreeing to defect, a requirement for North Korean refugees to be allowed to enter the South.
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