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Definition: Flawed |
FlawedAdjective1. Having a blemish or flaw; "a flawed diamond". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "flawed" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1844. (references) |
Synonym: FlawedSynonym: blemished (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Flawed |
| English words defined with "flawed": blemished. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "flawed": natural diamond. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | You're a little flawed, and not too bright, but you're one of a kind (Columbo: Negative Reaction; writing credit: Peter S. Fischer) | |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Because of the flawed phagocytes, the child has little resistance to frequent and severe infections. (references) | |
Early controlled trials of concomitant hydroxyurea with radiotherapy were suggestive of survival benefit, but were flawed methodologically. (references) | ||
Economic History | Central African Republic | The C.A.R. Government's human rights record remains flawed. (references) |
Cameroon | The Cameroonian Government's human rights record has been improving over the years but remains flawed. (references) | |
Haiti | On August 28, 2000, Haiti's new Parliament, including the contested Senators accorded victory under the flawed vote count, was convened. (references) | |
Human Rights | Togo | After a seriously flawed trial, Olympio was convicted and sentenced to 18 months in prison and fined. (references) |
El Salvador | Human rights groups charged the investigation was flawed criminally, and the prosecution was inadequate to ensure due process. (references) | |
El Salvador | As allowed by law, in February the original plaintiff, Jose Maria Tojeira, asked the appeals court to reconsider its verdict, which the prosecution alleged was flawed. (references) | |
Political Economy | Tajikistan | Parliamentary by-elections held throughout the country in May were flawed. (references) |
Lebanon | The 2000 parliamentary elections were flawed and suffered from Syrian government influence. (references) | |
Tajikistan | Rahmonov won reelection in a 1999 election that was flawed seriously and was neither free nor fair. (references) | |
Political Rights | Sri Lanka | Although they agreed that the poll was flawed, no new election was called. (references) |
Swaziland | Domestic and international groups have criticized the CRC report as flawed. (references) | |
Haiti | These results were based on what opposition parties and independent observers termed a flawed interpretation of both the Constitution and the electoral law. (references) | |
Trade | China | Foreign companies involved in the investigations have complained that pricing methodologies used in making the determination were flawed and that the Chinese investigators relied excessively on information provided by the Chinese petitioners. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
James Dobson | We are very flawed individuals. I want to tell you my prayer for myself is that I will finish strong and not make one of those stupid mistakes that will embarrass the cause of Christ. That's my passion. |
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| "Flawed" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 57.02% of the time. "Flawed" is used about 235 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 57.02% | 134 | 27,488 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 34.89% | 82 | 36,594 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 7.66% | 18 | 82,615 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.43% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 235 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
flawed research | 17 |
flawed | 11 |
flawed statistics | 8 |
article flawed research | 2 |
business flawed research | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "flawed"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | me të meta (defective, faulty, flawy, handicapped), me cen (faulty, vicious), i çalë (gammy, lame, limping), defektiv (defective). (various references) | |
Chinese | 有缺陷. (various references) | |
German | fehlerhaft (erroneous, faulty, incorrect, mistakenly), beschädigt (damaged, injured, mauls, shopworn). (various references) | |
Greek | με ψεγάδι. (various references) | |
Hungarian | törékeny (brittle, fragile, frail), selejtes (shoddy, drossy, rubbishy), repedt (cracked), repedezett (shaky). (various references) | |
Indonesian | tercacat (defective), cacat (defect, deficiency, disability, impair, malformation, physical defect). (various references) | |
Italian | difettoso (defective). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | awedflay.(various references) | |
Spanish | defectuoso (defective, faulty). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | rạn nứt có chỗ hỏng không hoàn thiện, không hoàn mỹ, có vết. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Flawed" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Alfwen, falsed, flaied, flaled, flawe, flawen, flawier, flaxed, fleaed, flewd, Flewitt, floweth, frawe, glawed, lawed. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "flawed" (pronounced flô"d) |
| 3 | -l ô" d | applaud, clawed, Laud. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-f-l-w" | |
-1 letter: lawed, waled, weald. | |
-2 letters: alef, awed, dale, deaf, deal, delf, fade, feal, flaw, flea, fled, flew, lade, lead, leaf, lewd, wade, wale, weal, weld. | |
-3 letters: ale, awe, awl, dal, daw, del, dew, eld, elf, fad, fed, few, lad, law, lea, led, wad, wae, wed. | |
-4 letters: ad, ae, al, aw, de, ed, ef, el, fa. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-f-l-w" | |
+1 letter: dewfall, waffled. | |
+2 letters: dewfalls, fallowed, leftward, selfward. | |
+3 letters: batfowled, dayflower, delftware, drawerful, dwarflike, leftwards. | |
+4 letters: afterworld, dayflowers, delftwares, downfallen, drawerfuls, farewelled, firewalled, floodwater, newfangled, waterflood. | |
+5 letters: afterworlds, floodwaters, waterfloods. | |
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