What is "defective"

Usage examples of "defective".

The complaint further alleged that the office of the Seminole County Supervisor of Elections failed to inform the Democratic Party of the actions of the Republican Party volunteers and to afford them the same opportunity to correct defective requests for absentee ballots from Democratic Party members.

There are cases where it is advisable, in states too poor or niggardly to care adequately for their defectives and delinquents, but eugenists should favor segregation as the main policy, with sterilization for the special cases as previously indicated.

Such perversions of the appetite are manifested only when there is either a diminution in the volume of blood, deficient alimentation, defective assimilation, or a general depravity of the nutritive functions.

If an offense cannot be accurately and clearly described without an allegation that the accused is not within an exception contained in the statutes, an indictment which does not contain such allegation is defective.

Colonies of defective bees were about to be flown from the experimental apiary at the University of California at Davis.

The stated reason for it -- that defective genes might be reinforced to produce defective children -- likewise does not apply.

Aside from his defective vision, he suffered from chronic constipation, which forced him to take enemas throughout his life.

Then a sort of washed-out, whimpery glug that even Henry could tell was a defective: Gluuuuuug!

She broke away from him, spread her wings, and, lofted into the dense, stultifying atmosphere of the lab-orb, returned the defective heuristic net to its circuit clamps high above his head.

The present organization is defective and unsatisfactory, and the suggestions submitted by the department will, it is believed, if adopted, obviate the difficulties alluded to, promote harmony, and increase the efficiency of the navy.

On subsequent inquiries, through a circuitous channel, unnecessary to be detailed here at length, on the part of the manufacturer of the cheese, it was found, that as the supplies of anotta had been defective and of inferior quality, recourse had been had to the expedient of colouring the commodity with vermilion.

One of the indium antimonide samples acted funny and he had to cycle the rig down, dump the cold bath and pull the defective sample.

So I ask you again, when the owner of that defective car gets into it and drives over Gough or Franklin streets, knowing those streets are extremely unsafe for cars with faulty brakes, and then injures or kills someone when the brakes do fail, do you advocate that the driver not be held accountable for his reckless, despicably antisocial behavior?

Barney said reflexively, and resumed his tinkering with the defective autonomic scoop.

It was a defective barometer, and had no hand but the stationary brass pointer, but I did not know that until afterward.