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

They have shown the gross defectiveness of the comparison of the butterfly and psyche.

From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by Alger, William Rounseville

And this defectiveness of nature is met by the truth, which, while we aspire, we know—that God will fulfil all noble desire in a life to come.

From The Poetry Of Robert Browning by Brooke, Stopford A. (Stopford Augustus)

The distinction between irregularity and defectiveness has been foreshadowed.

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