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

Now me and better may be said to make good the defectiveness of I and good; and I and good may be said to replace the forms wanting in me and better.

From A Handbook of the English Language by Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)

Yet there is a defectiveness in all the rules that natural reason can reach unto.

From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Binning, Hugh

Cases of dental defectiveness are frequently greater in number than are all other sorts of physical defects combined.

From Health Work in the Public Schools by Ayres, Leonard Porter