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