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

With this it has a pertness and pedantry which did not even then belong to the character of the author, and which I regret now more than I do the literary defectiveness.

From The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2) by Kenyon, Frederic G. (Frederic George), Sir

Thirty answers have been thrown out for irrelevancy or defectiveness.

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

They are only alluded to here to indicate that there are degrees in the defectiveness of eyes to colour.

From Colour Measurement and Mixture by Abney, W. de W.