Related Words for tragic flaw

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fault
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Noun, Noun
blemish
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Noun
shortcoming
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Noun
flaw
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Noun
fatal
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Adjective
demon
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Noun
mean streak
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Phrase, Noun
malady
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Noun
harm
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Noun
scar
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Noun
disadvantage
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Noun
pitfall
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Noun
folly
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Noun
villainy
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Noun
calamity
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Noun
travesty
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Noun
pathetic fallacy
x/x/xx
Phrase, Noun
demerit
x/x
Noun
lack
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Noun
damaged goods
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Phrase, Noun
misfortune
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Noun
downside
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Noun
unfortunate
x/xx
Adjective
drawback
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Noun
stain
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Noun
accident of birth
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Phrase, Noun
weakling
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Noun
fate
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Noun
taint
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Noun
heartbreaking
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Adjective
death
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Noun
decadent
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Adjective
bad actor
//x
Phrase, Noun
casualty
/xxx
Noun
moral turpitude
/x/xx
Phrase, Noun
imperfect
x/x
Adjective
chagrin
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Noun
curse
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Noun
ruin
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Noun
deformity
x/xx
Noun
foul play
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Phrase, Noun
one of those things
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Phrase, Noun
ruth
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Name
psychopath
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Noun
wound
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Noun
wretch
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Noun
poisoned chalice
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Phrase, Noun
evil
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Noun
discredit
x/x
Noun
defect
/x
Noun
incorrigible
x/xxx
Adjective
negative
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Adjective
enfant terrible
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Phrase, Noun
horrible
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Adjective
infamy
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Noun
plague
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Noun
treachery
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Noun
gutter
/x
Noun
bad apple
//x
Phrase, Noun
nemesis
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Noun
disaster
x/x
Noun
debacle
x/x
Noun
whimsy
/x
Noun
anathema
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Noun
detriment
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Noun
crab
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Noun
brunt
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Noun
plight
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Noun
blight
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Noun
loser
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Noun
cutthroat
/x
Noun
failing
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Verb
fall from grace
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Phrase, Noun, Verb
blur
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Noun
malpractice
x/x
Noun
misery
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Noun
pity
/x
Noun
failure
/x
Noun
misadventure
xx/x
Noun
malum in se
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Phrase, Noun
minus
/x
Noun
mishap
/x
Noun
misfit
/x
Noun
kink
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Noun
problematic
xx/x
Adjective
bad luck
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Phrase, Noun
diamond in the rough
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Phrase, Noun
disrepute
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Noun
malus
/x
Name
feet of clay
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Phrase, Noun
reprobate
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Noun
fallout
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Noun
deadly sin
/x/
Phrase, Noun
peril
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Noun
reverse
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Noun
pestilence
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Noun
implosion
x/x
Noun
doom
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Noun
martyrdom
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Noun
profligacy
/xxx
Noun
gangrene
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Noun
maladjustment
xx/x
Noun
malignant
x/x
Adjective
ill effect
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Phrase, Noun
sad sack
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Phrase, Noun
bad lot
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Phrase, Noun
miserable
/xxx
Adjective
deplorable
x/xx
Adjective
deviation
xx/x
Noun
profligate
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Adjective
blame
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Noun
miscreant
/xx
Noun
affliction
x/x
Noun
crime against humanity
/x/x/xx
Phrase, Noun
bad blood
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Phrase, Noun
bad news
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Phrase, Noun
trouble
/x
Noun
malfeasance
x/x
Noun
occupational hazard
xx/xx/x
Name, Name
jeopardy
/xx
Noun
reprehensible
xx/xx
Adjective
corruption
x/x
Noun
abnormality
xx/xx
Noun
abominable
x/xxx
Adjective
absence
/x
Noun
addiction
x/x
Noun
alarming
x/x
Adjective
anomaly
x/xx
Noun
appalling
x/x
Adjective
awful
/x
Adjective, Adverb
bad
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Adjective, Adverb, Noun, Verb
beam
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Noun, Verb
bitter
/x
Adjective, Noun, Verb
bizarre
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Adjective
bleak
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Adjective, Noun
blunder
/x
Noun, Verb
boring
/x
Adjective, Noun
breach
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Noun, Verb
breakdown
/x
Noun
breech
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Noun, Adjective, Adverb, Verb
bug
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Noun, Verb
calamitous
x/xx
Adjective
catastrophic
xx/x
Adjective
caveat
/xx
Noun, Verb
chink
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Noun, Verb, Adjective
clue
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Noun, Verb
comic
/x
Adjective, Noun
convincing
x/x
Adjective, Noun
crack
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Noun, Verb, Adjective
crash
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Noun, Verb, Adjective
cut
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Verb, Noun, Adjective
dark
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Adjective, Noun, Verb
deadly
/x
Adjective, Adverb
default
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Noun, Verb
deficiency
x/xx
Noun
deficit
/xx
Noun
depressing
x/x
Adjective
deputy
/xx
Noun, Verb
deserving
x/x
Noun, Adjective
desperate
/x
Adjective, Noun
devastating
/xxx
Adjective
difficulty
/xxx
Noun
dire
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Adjective, Noun
disastrous
x/x
Adjective
dismal
/x
Adjective
distressing
x/x
Adjective
drama
/x
Noun
dramatic
x/x
Adjective
drastic
/x
Adjective, Noun
dreadful
/x
Adjective, Adverb, Noun
empirical
x/xx
Adjective
error
/x
Noun, Verb
farcical
/xx
Adjective
fateful
/x
Adjective
fly
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Verb, Noun, Adjective
foreign
/x
Adjective, Name
fortunate
/xx
Adjective
gap
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Noun, Verb
gash
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Noun, Adjective, Verb
glitch
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Noun, Verb
gloomy
/x
Adjective, Noun
grand
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Noun, Adjective
grave
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Noun, Adjective, Verb
grieved
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Adjective
grievous
/x
Adjective
grim
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Adjective, Verb, Noun
gruesome
/x
Adjective
hack
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Noun, Verb
handicap
/xx
Noun, Verb
hole
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Noun, Verb, Adjective
horrendous
x/x
Adjective
horrific
x/x
Adjective
horrifying
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Adjective
human
/x
Adjective, Noun, Verb
imbalance
x/x
Noun
impairment
x/x
Noun
impatient
x/x
Adjective
impediment
x/xx
Noun
imperfection
xx/x
Noun
impropriety
xx/xx
Noun
inadequacy
x/xxx
Noun
inauspicious
xx/x
Adjective
inconsistent
xx/x
Adjective
interlude
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Noun, Verb
irregular
x/xx
Noun, Adjective
irregularity
xxx/xx
Noun
judgement
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Noun
judgment
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Noun
lacuna
x/x
Noun
lamentable
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Adjective
lemon
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Noun, Adjective, Verb
limitation
xx/x
Noun
loophole
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Noun, Verb
macabre
x/x
Adjective
magic
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Noun, Adjective, Verb
malfunction
x/x
Noun, Verb
melancholy
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Noun, Adjective
melodramatic
xxx/x
Adjective
mistake
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Noun, Verb
morbid
/x
Adjective
natural
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Adjective, Noun, Adverb
near
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Adjective, Adverb, Verb, Noun
nightmarish
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Adjective
notch
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Noun, Verb
obstacle
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Noun
ominous
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Adjective
omission
x/x
Noun
painful
/x
Adjective
pathetic
x/x
Adjective
personal
/xx
Adjective, Noun
petty
/x
Adjective, Noun
pitiful
/xx
Adjective, Adverb
pleasing
/x
Noun, Adjective
problem
/x
Noun, Adjective
protagonist
x/xx
Noun
real
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Adjective, Noun, Adverb
regrettable
x/xx
Adjective
rift
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Noun, Verb
ruling
/x
Noun, Adjective
sad
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Adjective, Verb, Noun
sane
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Adjective, Noun
scarcity
/xx
Noun
serious
/xx
Adjective, Adverb
severe
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Adjective, Noun
shocking
/x
Adjective, Noun
shortage
/x
Noun
shortfall
/x
Noun
simple
/x
Adjective, Noun, Verb
sin
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Noun, Verb
slit
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Noun, Verb, Adjective
sobering
/xx
Adjective
sorrow
/x
Noun, Verb
sorrowful
/xx
Adjective
spiritual
/xxx
Adjective, Noun
stark
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Adjective, Name, Adverb, Verb
straw
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Noun, Adjective, Verb
suspicion
x/x
Noun, Verb
terrible
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Adjective, Adverb
terrifying
/xxx
Adjective
tragedies
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Adjective
tragically
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Adverb
traumatic
x/x
Adjective, Noun
unhappy
x/x
Adjective, Noun, Verb
unlucky
x/x
Adjective
untimely
x/x
Adjective, Adverb
untoward
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Adjective
vice
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Noun, Adjective, Verb
void
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Noun, Adjective, Verb
weakness
/x
Noun
weaknesses
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Noun