: having a defect or imperfection
a flawed diamond
a flawed plan
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a flawed paint job that resulted in some peeling almost as soon as the paint had dried
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Eulogies will probably dwell on a humble peanut farmer turned president, a tireless humanitarian, a striving and sometimes flawed man.
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Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 1 Jan. 2025
The idea for the book came to Rybczynski, an emeritus professor of architecture at the University of Pennsylvania, while researching a 2014 article for Architect magazine on Tadao Ando’s dazzling but flawed Dream chair.
—Geoffrey Montes, Architectural Digest, 1 Jan. 2025
Literary scholars have written essay after essay remarking on Hamlet’s delay, and he has been widely understood as a flawed person, too melancholy and intellectual to do what he’s decided to do.
—Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 31 Dec. 2024
In theory, the tale of a flawed dynamic woman denied the very human concept of change and metamorphosis is potent dramatic fodder, and Zaki’s approach yields remarkable moments in isolation.
—Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 30 Dec. 2024
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Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 1 Jan. 2025
The idea for the book came to Rybczynski, an emeritus professor of architecture at the University of Pennsylvania, while researching a 2014 article for Architect magazine on Tadao Ando’s dazzling but flawed Dream chair.
—Geoffrey Montes, Architectural Digest, 1 Jan. 2025
Literary scholars have written essay after essay remarking on Hamlet’s delay, and he has been widely understood as a flawed person, too melancholy and intellectual to do what he’s decided to do.
—Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 31 Dec. 2024
In theory, the tale of a flawed dynamic woman denied the very human concept of change and metamorphosis is potent dramatic fodder, and Zaki’s approach yields remarkable moments in isolation.
—Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 30 Dec. 2024
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“Flawed.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/flawed. Accessed 15 Jan. 2025.
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