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defectiveness





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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

Cases of dental defectiveness are frequently greater in number than are all other sorts of physical defects combined.

From Health Work in the Public Schools by Leonard Porter Ayres

This flattening under test naturally drew attention to the defectiveness of girder stays.

From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose

This favourable trait was undoubtedly owing in great measure to the defectiveness of their otherwise very elegant, but small, slight-built canoes, which are but ill adapted for voyaging to any remote distance.

From Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume II (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Karl Ritter von Scherzer


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