Reverse Dictionary: FLAW

ADJECTIVES
► CRACKED damaged, flawed → 1500
► CRACKED IN THE RING flawed → 1596 sl.
► CRAZED flawed, damaged; broken, cracked → a1450 obs.
► CRAZY full of flaws or cracks; damaged, impaired, unsound; liable to break or fall to pieces → 1583
► DEFAULTIVE faulty, defective, flawed → 1398
► DEFAULTY defective, flawed, faulty → 1390
► IMPERFECT flawed, defective, faulty → 1400
► IMPERFECTED flawed, imperfect → 1552
► PECCABLE imperfect, flawed, fallible → 1604
► PIECED imperfect, flawed → 1542
► ROUGH AROUND THE EDGES having some flaws or imperfections → 1892
► SHORTCOMING flawed or defective; lacking in some way → 1690
► SQUARE free from flaw or defect → 1628 obs.

ADVERBS
► IMPERFECTLY in a flawed or defective way → 1400

NOUNS
► BLEMISHMENT damage; flaw; impairment → 1596
► BODGE a flaw, imperfection or blemish resulting from unskilful workmanship → 1589 chiefly UK, obs.
► BOTCH a flaw, imperfection or blemish resulting from unskilful workmanship → 1579
► BRACK a break, crack, or flaw → 1871 Amer. dial.
► CRACK a flaw, deficiency, failing, unsoundness → 1570
► CRACKING a flaw; damaging of credit, reputation, etc. → 1587
► CRAZE a flaw, defect, unsoundness; an infirmity of health or of brain → 1534 obs.
► DEFAULT a flaw or imperfection; a physical defect or blemish → 1340
► DEFECTUOSITY a defect, a flaw, a fault → 1602
► DEFORMITY a moral flaw or blemish → 1425
► DYSMORPHOPHOBIA an irrational fear of having a flaw in one’s physical appearance → 1900
► EELIST a defect, a flaw; a deformity → 1549 Sc. obs.
► ERROR a flaw, malformation → 1398 obs.
► FAULT a flaw, a crack; an unsound or damaged place → 1514 obs.
► FLAKE a flaw, blemish, fleck → c1400 obs.
► FLY IN THE OINTMENT a slight flaw that detracts from value, completeness, or enjoyment → 1828 colloq.
► FRAILTY a character flaw or particular weakness → 1390
► GALL an unsound spot, fault, or flaw → 1545
► HOLE a flaw, fault, ground for blame → 1553
► INFIRMITY a weakness, flaw, defect in a person’s character → 1382
► KINK a flaw or minor problem in a plan, system, etc. → 1857
► LESION a blemish, flaw, or hurt → 1425
► MANK a flaw, a deficiency → 1658 Sc. obs.
► PECCABILITY as being fallible, flawed, or imperfect → 1631
► PECCANCY a fault, a flaw → 1820
► SCAM a flaw, crack, injury → 1904 Sc. (Bk.)
► SHORTCOMING a fault or flaw → 1637 orig. Sc.
► SMIRCH a moral stain or flaw; a fault or defect; a blot or blemish → 1862
► SPOT a moral flaw; a blot or blemish → 1225
► TASH a flaw, stain, spot, smudge, or blemish on any object; a spoiling or defacing, damage to clothes, flowers, or the like → 1808 Sc.
► VICE a flaw in character or conduct; moral fault or defect → 1338
► WAIME a flaw, a tear → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► WART a flaw; an imperfection → 20C sl.
► WOUND a flaw, an imperfection → 1646 obs.

PHRASES
► HE HAS A LEAK THAT WILL SEND HIM TO HELL said of a person with a fatal flaw → 1931 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► WITHOUT LACK without flaw, defect, or fault → 1330 obs.

VERBS
► ESPY to detect a flaw, fault, etc. → 1320
► MAR to produce a flaw or blemish in → a1000
► TAKE IN WATER ► TAKE WATER to have a flaw or weak point → 1530