defectively
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The jury in the midwestern state of Missouri on Thursday rejected claims that Roundup was defectively designed and should not have been sold.
From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026
The lawsuit argues both platforms were defectively designed and engaged in false marketing about safety for young users and so should be held liable for the harm young John Doe came to.
From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2026
Austin Bartlett, a Chicago attorney representing the families of 60 of the crash victims, said the report “lends credibility to the plaintiffs’ theory of the case that this was fundamentally a defectively designed aircraft.”
From Washington Post ● Oct. 25, 2019
Last year, a jury found that the mower was defectively designed and awarded Isabelle $12.25 million, holding Deere 78 percent responsible for the damages.
From Salon ● Jun. 2, 2019
Visions of Olympia, clothed entirely in sage-green, from which I infer a defectively educated taste on the part of her respected parents, who were necessarily unacquainted with the South Kensington Museum, still arise before me.
From The Uncommercial Traveller by Charles Dickens
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