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How to use flawed in a sentence

29 example sentences · adjective

Flawed means having a flaw or imperfection. Example: “Flawed diamonds are generally not used in jewellery.”

Examples of flawed by meaning

adjectiveHaving a flaw or imperfection.

  • Flawed diamonds are generally not used in jewellery.
  • His design for a perpetual motion machine is flawed because water does not flow uphill.
  • He presents Hitler’s rise as an element of the collapse of a republic confronting dilemmas of globalization with imperfect instruments and flawed leaders.2018 June 14, Timothy Snyder, “How Did the Nazis Gain Power in Germany?”, in The New York Times

More sentences with flawed

  • The product of last month's quality standards committee is quite good, even though the process was flawed.From the entry product
  • This product of last month's quality standards committee is quite good, even though the process was flawed.From the entry process
  • Through media reports it percolated to the surface that the police investigation was profoundly flawed.From the entry percolate
  • The prime numbers are infinite, therefore any proof that depends on their exhaustibility is flawed.From the entry exhaustibility
  • His chain of argumentation is flawed.From the entry argumentation
  • The court scrutinized expert testimony purporting to establish spiritual abuse and found it methodologically flawed.2026 July 6, Massimo Introvigne, “Global Anti-Cultism and the Return of “Brainwashing” Theories”, in Bitter Winter. From the entry methodologically
  • "Liberals tend to think man is infinitely perfectible; conservatives see him as infinitely flawed.1988 May 6, Robert McClory, “The Divine Right”, in Chicago Reader. From the entry perfectible
  • It was refreshing because it set the stage for women to be flawed, angry, strange, needy and otherwise nonadorable.2016, Rebecca Traister, All the Single Ladies, page 94. From the entry nonadorable
  • She raptured me in summer by giving me Fitzgerald's flawed and gorgeous masterpiece, the book that held his tortured heart.2012, The Books They Gave Me: True Stories of Life, Love, and Lit, page 138. From the entry rapture
  • We were both flawed, obvious victims of physical misfortune.2009, Alice Munro, “Face”, in Too Much Happiness, Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, page 145. From the entry make common cause
  • The begging-the-question fallacies are flawed because they assume, in a variety of ways, the truth of the conclusion in their premises.2008, T. Edward Damer, “Fallacies that Violate the Structural Criterion”, in Attacking Faulty Reasoning: A Practical Guide to Fallacy-free…. From the entry begging the question
  • In this chapter I argue that the first fundamental theorem of welfare economics—asserting the efficiency of competitive economics—is fundamentally flawed.1994, Joseph E. Stiglitz, Whither Socialism?, The MIT Press, page 27. From the entry fundamental theorem
  • Past RS K-bikes have been seriously flawed.1993, David Edwards, “Editors’ Notes”, in Cycle World, page 45. From the entry orange-peely
  • He is the effect of a flawed colonial mimesis, in which to be Anglicized is emphatically not to be English.1984, Homi K. Bhabha, “Of Mimicry and Man: The Ambivalence of Colonial Discourse”, in October, volume 28, number Spring, page 128. From the entry mimic man
  • There was little soul-searching about how and why things have gone so wrong, or about the flawed, hyper-optimistic reasoning that prevailed during globalisation’s heyday.2022 June 1, Joseph Stiglitz, “Davos 2022 meeting was a missed opportunity over globalisation”, in The Guardian. From the entry soul-searching
  • Race is a flawed concept to begin with, and while the capitalisation of the “b” assuages race politics, it also validates race politics.2021 June 3, Minna Salami, “Why I don’t believe the word ‘black’ should always have a capital ‘b’”, in The Guardian. From the entry capitalisation
  • This early flawed statement was rapidly updated with entirely accurate information, but it was too late - the genie was out of the bottle.2021 November 17, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Salisbury: a media own goal”, in RAIL, number 944, page 3. From the entry the genie is out of the bottle
  • The investigations generally agree that the administration’s postattack talking points — a matter of much dispute — were flawed but not deliberately misleading.2015 October 11, Eric Lipton, “Clinton Emails Became the New Focus of Benghazi Inquiry”, in New York Times. From the entry postattack
  • We have gotten used to the flawed idea that fast response to customer orders is simply a matter of keeping warehouses full of finished goods.2008, Richard J. Schonberger, World Class Manufacturing, page 149. From the entry inventoriable
  • He watched the moon's majestic rise, watched it transform itself from a luminous semiorb into a flawed spotlight aimed at him from the sky.2001, Sands Hall, Catching Heaven. From the entry semiorb
  • Wade: a flawed, but revolutionary pronouncement, the first real break in the prison of biological determinism that has kept women in their place.1983 February 5, Rhonda Copelon, quotee, “Roe v. Wade: The Challenge of the Next Decade”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 28…. From the entry biological determinism
  • Over the years, openSNP became one of the largest repositories of its kind, used in research, education, and even community-led investigations like debunking flawed CFS genetic studies.2025 April 2, Bill Toulas, “Genetic data site openSNP to close and delete data over privacy concerns”, in BleepingComputer. From the entry repository
  • The notion that European exploration of South America upended some Edenesque paradise is deeply flawed and something we will be looking at later on in the book.2021, Otto English, Fake History, page 64. From the entry Edenesque
  • Yet it is so powerful a symbol, and such a flawed and original concept, that it deserves a place alongside the most adventurous typographic innovations of the last century.2011 September, Simon Garfield, “Breaking the Rules”, in Just My Type: A Book About Fonts, New York, N.Y.: Gotham Books, Penguin Group…. From the entry interrobang
  • Last year, "The Future of Sperm," a paper published by researchers from both Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, showed that the methodology behind the sperm panic was flawed.[2022 April 25, Christine Sismondo, “Unpacking testicle tanning, the so-called spermageddon and shedding light on medical misinformation”…. From the entry spermageddon
  • Behavioral economists argue a worldview based on the notion that human mentation is frail and flawed, leading to irrational choices that fail to adequately consider the wider structure of alternatives.2018, Shoshana Zuboff, chapter 10, in The Age of Surveillance Capitalism. From the entry mentation

Meaning of flawed

  1. adjective Having a flaw or imperfection.

Full definition of flawed

Questions about flawed in a sentence

How do you use flawed in a sentence?
Flawed is used as an adjective. For example: “Flawed diamonds are generally not used in jewellery.”
What is a short sentence with flawed?
“His chain of argumentation is flawed.”
What does flawed mean?
Flawed means having a flaw or imperfection.

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