Scratch or dent, e.g

Usage examples of flaw.

But no one every looked that closely because Abram moved on before they could find his flaws.

The old charge of vanity, the character flaw that Adams so often chastised himself for, had been made again, and on the floor of Congress, just as he was to assume his most important role.

An overweening ambition was the flaw Adams so often attributed to others, that he warned his sons against, and that privately he recognized in himself.

Guilt over the fact that they do not embody the magnificent sadness of politicans and the brooding sympathy of anchorpersons, that their grief is a flawed posture, streaked with the banal, with thoughts of sex and football, cable bills and job security.

Guilt over the fact that they do not embody the magnificent sadness of politicians and the brooding sympathy of anchorpersons, that their grief is a flawed posture, streaked with the banal, with thoughts of sex and football, cable bills and job security.

Even in the first flare of youth, even at the time when he was the meteoric, dazzling figure flaunting over all the baldpates of the universe the standard of the musical future, it was apparent that there were serious flaws in his spirit.

Aziz walked down the hall with Bengazi, he started to see one fundamental flaw in his plan.

Some flaws were found-La Cucaracha was a very old lady-but fewer than Hilton expected.

Riberry trees wove about the edges of the round window, leaning in to offer clusters of yellow leaves, and minute markin grubs were sprinkled across the glasswork like the tiniest flaws in glass.

Pitts had won the Guggenheim grant he applied for to support his doctoral project, but Wiener soon learned that Pitts was plagued by two flaws Wiener himself never suffered as a prodigy or as an adult: an incorrigible habit of procrastination and a terror of being judged, which Pitts masked with bravado.

In each study, however, the investigators concluded that methodological flaws had led to the negative results.

They came out of the egg transparent, so we could inspect them for fit and flaws, and except for the barely visible tracery of microtubules that carried coolant and such around them, they looked like an extra layer of skin.

Double Pointers and Flaws, Pins of Uberwald and Genua, First Steps in Pins, Adventures in Acuphilia .

There is, however, a fatal flaw in your argument: we have no idea where the Polypheme home world might be, and we know they will do everything they can to conceal that knowledge from us.

According to many primatologists, it shares something in common with these earlier experiments: it is fatally flawed.