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However, just because a vaccine is replication-defective does not mean that you won't have an adverse event.

Flaubert, for instance, hated the works of Dickens: “What defective composition!”

Anyone who takes pot shots at a lovely wading bird is a hopeless defective, in my view, an evolutionary mistake.

Any infant deemed defective by the council was tossed off a cliff.

Seven years ago, a Chevy Cobalt with a defective ignition switch killed two teenage girls.

All things are double, one against another, and he hath made nothing defective.

If this is not done, some person who afterward wished to purchase the land might object because the recorded title was defective.

Such a license though defective is valid until revoked by the proper authority.

If he is injured while running a car from a defective brake of which he had knowledge, he cannot recover.

Thus if a meeting of proprietors must be called by twelve of them, a call signed by eleven is defective.

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On this page you'll find 71 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to defective, such as: abnormal, damaged, deficient, faulty, flawed, and inadequate.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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