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flawed, ppl. a.|flɔːd|
[f. flaw v. + -ed1.]
In senses of the vb.: a. of material things; b. of immaterial things.
a.1632Shirley Ball iv. iii, What wise gamester Will venture a hundred pounds to a flaw'd sixpence? 1665Hooke Microgr. 6 Appearing white, like flaw'd Horn or Glass. 1891E. W. Gosse Gossip in Library xvii. 219 [He] made his pictures of real life appear like scenes looked at through flawed glass.
b.1605Shakes. Lear v. iii. 196 But his flaw'd heart..Twixt two extremes of passion, ioy and greefe, Burst smilingly. 1767Warburton Serm. 1 Cor. xiii. 13 A flawed and faulty heart. 1851Thackeray Eng. Hum. v. (1876) 320 A hero with a flawed reputation. |