Sentence examples for being defective from inspiring English sources

This covers an item received being defective, damaged, not as described, or received late.

"We are not ready," Smith wrote, "to suspect any person of being defective in selfishness".

Rosen questioned whether what a thing ought to do is really what saves it from being defective.

Their speech being defective, however, it is evident that they had not learned to utilize this channel adequately.

The BBC, therefore, isn't wrong, or bad: it is guilty of "failure", or of being "defective", a word somehow particularly wounding in its total lack of malevolence.

We now understand that, far from being "defective" or "backward," these children are merely different, boasting their own strengths and talents.

But it, too, was defective.

This is defective corporate governance".

The system, itself, is defective.

Matthew claimed it was defective.

Opinion | The president is defective.