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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

... Kremlin live in fear their power and position would collapse were their own people to acquire knowledge, information, comprehension about our free society. Their world has many elements of strength, but this one fatal flaw: the weakness represented by their iron curtain and their police state. Surely, a social order at once so insecure and so fearful, must ultimately lose its ...

— Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present • Various

... this way because I want you to realize that except for the one fault which has shadowed your father's life, there is no flaw in him. Other men have gone through the world apparently untouched by any temptation, but their families could tell you the story of a thousand tyrannies, their clerks could tell you of selfishness and hardness, their churches and ...

— The Tin Soldier • Temple Bailey

... or Johnson could rise from the dead! 'Expende—quot libras in duce summo invenies?' I knew they were light in the balance of mortality; but I thought their living dust weighed more carats. Alas! this imperial diamond hath a flaw in it, and is now hardly fit to stick in a glazier's pencil;—the pen of the historian won't rate it worth a ducat. Psha! 'something too much of this.' But I won't give him up even now; though all his admirers have, 'like the thanes, fallen from him.'"—Journal, ...

— The Works Of Lord Byron, Vol. 3 (of 7) • Lord Byron

... the flaw instantly. "To be without a wife at all would be about as conducive to happiness as to be ...

— Mr. Isaacs • F. Marion Crawford

... a very long time before the inquest was over, and Aunt Jane had almost yielded to her niece's impatience and her own, and consented to walk down to meet the intelligence, when Fergus came tearing in, 'I've seen the rock, and there is a flaw of crystal- lisation in it! And the coroner-man ...

— Beechcroft at Rockstone • Charlotte M. Yonge

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