defectively

Example Sentences

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The judge, though, dismissed some claims that the defendants' platforms were defectively designed.

From Reuters • Nov. 14, 2023

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

A federal jury awarded Yeaman nearly $1 million, but a judge set aside that award, ruling there was no evidence the bat was defectively designed.

From Washington Times • Jun. 30, 2014

For the dissemination of such banal knowledge, absurdly emitted and defectively taken in, the taxpayers of the United States are mulcted in hundreds of thousands of dollars a year.

From Damn! A Book of Calumny by Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis)