: having a defect or imperfection
a flawed diamond
a flawed plan
Examples of flawed in a Sentence
a flawed paint job that resulted in some peeling almost as soon as the paint had dried
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Since the settlement forced the state to stop using the flawed voter data-sharing system, Kansas has opted not to join a more reliable interstate voter registration system.
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Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 25 Nov. 2025
The original Concord Police Department investigators showed extraordinary diligence, only to be thwarted by flawed forensic technology of the era.
—Kerry Breen, CBS News, 25 Nov. 2025
Automated tools can incorrectly assess performance, leading to disciplinary actions, pay cuts, or termination if benchmarks are flawed.
—Sam Stevenson, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Nov. 2025
The author, Dante Alighieri, born in Florence in 1265, is also its leading character—not a warrior as in the Homeric epics or their Latin successor, Virgil’s Aeneid, but, rather, a poet, a flawed and introspective man whose fall into despair sets the drama in motion.
—Claudia Roth Pierpont, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
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Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 25 Nov. 2025
The original Concord Police Department investigators showed extraordinary diligence, only to be thwarted by flawed forensic technology of the era.
—Kerry Breen, CBS News, 25 Nov. 2025
Automated tools can incorrectly assess performance, leading to disciplinary actions, pay cuts, or termination if benchmarks are flawed.
—Sam Stevenson, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Nov. 2025
The author, Dante Alighieri, born in Florence in 1265, is also its leading character—not a warrior as in the Homeric epics or their Latin successor, Virgil’s Aeneid, but, rather, a poet, a flawed and introspective man whose fall into despair sets the drama in motion.
—Claudia Roth Pierpont, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
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“Flawed.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/flawed. Accessed 2 Dec. 2025.
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