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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

It could not indeed be otherwise; the defectiveness of the calendar must necessarily falsify all their records as to time.

From Travels in China, Containing Descriptions, Observations, and Comparisons, Made and Collected in the Course of a Short Residence at the Imperial Palace of Yuen-Min-Yuen, and on a Subsequent Journey through the Country from Pekin to Canton by Sir John Barrow

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 William Rounseville Alger

Thirty answers have been thrown out for irrelevancy or defectiveness.

From A Librarian's Open Shelf by Arthur E. Bostwick




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