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Flaw

noun

An imperfection in an object or machine. Synonyms: defect, fault. "If there are any defects you should send it back to the manufacturer"

Defect or weakness in a person's character.

An imperfection in a plan or theory or legal document that causes it to fail or that reduces its effectiveness.

verb

(past & past part. flawed; pres. part. flawing)

Add a flaw or blemish to; make imperfect or defective. Synonym: blemish.

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"Flaw" Quotes from Famous Books

... man without it. His clothes are but his tailor's livery, which he gives him, for 'tis ten to one he never pays for them. He is very careful to discover the lining of his coat, that you may not suspect any want of integrity or flaw in him from the skin outwards. His tailor is his creator, and makes him of nothing; and though he lives by faith in him, he is perpetually committing iniquities against him. His soul dwells in the outside of him, like that of a hollow tree, and if you do but peel the bark off him he deceases ...

— Character Writings of the 17th Century • Various

... sufficient to remove the obstacles that the mass may become unified. We have as a result a firmly established representative union of local self-governments. The cooling and finishing process has left no flaw. Sir, what sort of a soldier must he be who is not proud of having been tempered in such a trial? If after the unmatched tournament this is not the spirit of victor and vanquished, then the lights of chivalry are burnt out and magnanimity is ...

— Memorial Addresses on the Life and Character of William H. F. Lee (A Representative from Virginia) • Various

... this was a woman with Rosamund's figure, face, hair, eyes, voice, gestures, movements—one who would be Rosamund but for some terrible flaw. ...

— In the Wilderness • Robert Hichens

... so, my good lady," replied the traveller "he is an English lord, and, as they say, a Lord of Parliament—but some folk pretend to say there is a flaw in the title." ...

— St. Ronan's Well • Sir Walter Scott

... are saddening in effect. The autumn wood robed in its scarlet clothes, The matchless tinting on the royal rose Whose velvet leaf by no least flaw is flecked, Love's supreme moment, when the soul unchecked Soars high as heaven, and its best rapture knows— These hold a deeper pathos than our woes, Since they leave nothing better ...

— Poems of Passion • Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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