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flawed adjective [ flɔːd ]

• having or characterized by a fundamental weakness or imperfection.
• "a fatally flawed strategy"
Similar: unsound, defective, faulty, distorted, inaccurate, incorrect, erroneous, imprecise, fallacious, wrong, impaired, weak, invalid,
Opposite: sound,

flaw verb

• mar, weaken, or invalidate (something).
• "the computer game was flawed by poor programming"
Origin: Middle English: perhaps from Old Norse flaga ‘slab’. The original sense was ‘a flake of snow’, later, ‘a fragment or splinter’, hence ‘a defect or imperfection’ (late 15th century).


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