How to Use flawed in a Sentence

flawed

adjective
  • No one can force the daughter to accept that her mother, like so many others, is flawed.
    Jeanne Phillips, The Mercury News, 1 Oct. 2024
  • Again, witches aren’t superheroes, and are actually allowed to be bad, or at the very least, deeply flawed, and Agatha is the worst of all.
    Dani Di Placido, Forbes, 29 Sep. 2024
  • Trump, who turns 78 in June, was one of the most flawed.
    Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2024
  • One third of his death row cases were found to be flawed.
    Riley Robinson, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Feb. 2024
  • Howver, the events of recent weeks have shown that these reasons are flawed.
    Robert Litan, Fortune, 14 Apr. 2023
  • The superlative Ohtani plays out of this world, and the flawed Angels remain stuck on the ground.
    Scott Miller, New York Times, 8 Aug. 2023
  • That said, Maloy doesn't match the profile of the flawed candidates who have blown winnable races for the GOP in the past.
    Nathaniel Rakich, ABC News, 20 Nov. 2023
  • The question is flawed though, because, of course, Angela M. Vázquez and I have met.
    WIRED, 23 Feb. 2023
  • There are so many more kings and cads, great men and flawed leaders left for Neeson to play.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 25 Aug. 2023
  • The characters in Annie Hall are flawed, and for one of the earliest times, that's the point.
    Milan Polk, Men's Health, 11 Jan. 2023
  • The new study on benzene in acne products is flawed in many ways.
    Jessica Chia, SELF, 12 Mar. 2024
  • The Raiders have a two-game winning streak after beating the deeply flawed Giants and Jets.
    Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2023
  • And if not, was there any chance to stagger across the finish line with a deeply flawed candidate?
    Philip Elliott, TIME, 28 June 2024
  • The wild card is Jarren Duran, a flawed prospect who seems sure to get another chance.
    Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Apr. 2023
  • Many of the regulations that have been passed over the years were severely flawed.
    Julian Zelizer, CNN, 1 Apr. 2023
  • People thought the mix was flawed because the Mavericks lost to Golden State in five.
    Tim Cowlishaw, Dallas News, 13 Apr. 2023
  • The team swiftly accepted that the new approach, introduced at the start of 2022, was flawed, and shook up their staffing.
    Phillip Horton, New York Times, 13 Dec. 2023
  • Everyone had an opinion, most of which boiled down to: The current system is flawed, time to fix it.
    Los Angeles Times, 4 Feb. 2023
  • The College Board admitted that its rollout of the course was flawed, but that the discourse around the course has been distorted.
    Curtis Bunn, NBC News, 13 Feb. 2023
  • But, the company is also saying that the model is still flawed.
    Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 14 Mar. 2023
  • The latest round of cuts underscores how flawed that thinking was and that there are likely more cuts on the horizon.
    Vulture, 10 Jan. 2024
  • College sports have been a big deal here for decades, and treating it as a taboo has long been an outdated and flawed notion.
    Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Will the flawed, 11-year-old National Women’s Soccer League join the party?
    Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Apr. 2023
  • Supporters of the overhaul say that the judicial system in Israel is flawed, and gives too much power to the court.
    Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN, 22 Sep. 2023
  • Research has shown that this can draw students’ attention away from the word itself and is a flawed approach.
    James Barron, New York Times, 15 May 2023
  • But in Tuesday’s response, the band’s lawyers say those allegations are deeply flawed.
    Bill Donahue, Billboard, 6 Mar. 2024
  • What gives the film its power is the way that its climactic final act grows out of an organic metaphor for the flawed vision of the U.S. presence in Afghanistan.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 18 Apr. 2023
  • His ability to illuminate flawed men on the page caught the eye of literary agent Jane von Mehren.
    Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 10 Jan. 2024
  • But the design of that first-generation Pencil is flawed.
    Cierra Cowan, PCMAG, 1 Feb. 2024
  • There is also the irreparably flawed nature of Lennon’s Dakota demos.
    Geoff Edgers, Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2023

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