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
This flattening under test naturally drew attention to the defectiveness of girder stays.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua
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.
This favourable trait was undoubtedly owing in great measure to the defectiveness of their otherwise very elegant, but small, slight-built canoes, which are but ill adapted for voyaging to any remote distance.
