Defects is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DEFECTS in dictionary:

VERB:
• DEFECT, to desert an allegiance
• abandon one's country or cause in favour of an opposing one
NOUN:
• a shortcoming, imperfection, or lack

Words related to DEFECTS

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Words that contain DEFECTS

redefects15

How to use DEFECTS in a sentence

• Though it has many defects, in respect to plot and characterization, it seems to us the most charming in style and beautiful in sentiment of Mrs.
• This intelligent people perceived and regretted these defects.
• It would have been quite as true to nature to have represented her as overcoming her defects, and as being purified through suffering.
• The author, I should say, finds it rather difficult to understand the ordinary good or indifferent fellow with his qualities and their defects.
• CHAPTER V THE METHOD OF POLITICAL REASONING The traditional method of political reasoning has inevitably shared the defects of its subject-matter.
• The social virtue therefore which is almost a necessity of his existence is a good-humoured tolerance of the defects of average human nature.
• So might the ignorance in which we are left as to the fate of the Fool, and several more of the defects noticed in the text.
• You will there see the defects and the advantages of those subjects which you prefer.
• But you forget that they had the gift of miracles, and a sanctity so evident that their passport was secure despite their defects.
• The qualities and defects of the Italian nation all existed in the Pandolfi family.
• His view is that the true remedy against crime is to remove individual defects and social disadvantages where it is possible to remove them.
• In spite of the defects of the art you could almost fancy that you gazed out upon a landscape.
• It was fortunate for the voyage, that these defects were discovered, when we were in a place, where the materials requisite were to be procured.
• There are in me, I suppose, certain defects which hinder me from being loved, for I have often been thrown over.
• It was because He always remained a peasant that He was able to see so clearly the defects of that more intricate social system to which His ministry introduced Him.
• Yet, when I came to sell it, I was astonished to learn how many were its defects.
• Great wealth covers a multitude of defects in the Avenue.
• And hence they who incur these defects, as due to sin, are properly said to contract them.
• Moreover, there were other serious defects in the Letter.
• But, philosophical defects apart, they are excellent lectures.
• Deafness and other defects would be most likely to disappear from a family by marriage with a person of different nationality.
• They were a rough lot with both the virtues and the defects of the pioneer.
• This character is entirely German as regards not only its advantages but also its defects.
• There is also evidence that defects in general are more frequent in men than in women.
• On account of physical defects in the mother, or often for merely selfish reasons, the infant is deprived of its natural food.

Similar words containing FECT without suffix s and without prefix de

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