: having a defect or imperfection
a flawed diamond
a flawed plan
Examples of flawed in a Sentence
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Investigators found that both crashes involved a flawed flight control system.
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Gio Benitez, ABC News, 17 Apr. 2024
Regretful, the flawed mom promises to cook the chicken with peppers that Linda’s Italian father, Giulio (Pietro Sermonti), used to make.
—Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2024
Among the most visible, but flawed pieces of advice are claims that taxpayers can write off their pets as business expenses, or hire one's own kids for a tax refund.
—Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 12 Apr. 2024
Adding to an already miserable start to 2024, Boeing stood accused Tuesday of routinely ignoring a whistleblower’s complaints about the allegedly critically flawed manufacturing process for its 787 Dreamliner planes.
—David Goldman, CNN, 10 Apr. 2024
Directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson and written by Matt Greenhalgh — who also happened to write Control as well as Nowhere Man, a portrait of John Lennon as a young man that was Taylor-Johnson’s directorial debut — Back to Black is, like its heroine, flawed and fallible but frequently very affecting.
—Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Apr. 2024
His flawed statements about the border, the economy, the coronavirus pandemic and the 2020 election have formed the bedrock of his 2024 campaign.
—Angelo Fichera, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2024
Even on land, companies and governments are minimally informed about what is happening at the fish farms and processing plants partly because the audits that are meant to verify ethical and legal conditions tied to worker treatment, food safety, and ocean sustainability are deeply flawed.
—Ian Urbina, TIME, 1 Apr. 2024
Trump, who turns 78 in June, was one of the most flawed.
—Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2024
Gio Benitez, ABC News, 17 Apr. 2024
Regretful, the flawed mom promises to cook the chicken with peppers that Linda’s Italian father, Giulio (Pietro Sermonti), used to make.
—Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2024
Among the most visible, but flawed pieces of advice are claims that taxpayers can write off their pets as business expenses, or hire one's own kids for a tax refund.
—Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 12 Apr. 2024
Adding to an already miserable start to 2024, Boeing stood accused Tuesday of routinely ignoring a whistleblower’s complaints about the allegedly critically flawed manufacturing process for its 787 Dreamliner planes.
—David Goldman, CNN, 10 Apr. 2024
Directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson and written by Matt Greenhalgh — who also happened to write Control as well as Nowhere Man, a portrait of John Lennon as a young man that was Taylor-Johnson’s directorial debut — Back to Black is, like its heroine, flawed and fallible but frequently very affecting.
—Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Apr. 2024
His flawed statements about the border, the economy, the coronavirus pandemic and the 2020 election have formed the bedrock of his 2024 campaign.
—Angelo Fichera, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2024
Even on land, companies and governments are minimally informed about what is happening at the fish farms and processing plants partly because the audits that are meant to verify ethical and legal conditions tied to worker treatment, food safety, and ocean sustainability are deeply flawed.
—Ian Urbina, TIME, 1 Apr. 2024
Trump, who turns 78 in June, was one of the most flawed.
—Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2024
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“Flawed.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/flawed. Accessed 25 Apr. 2024.
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