Antonyms for flaw
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : flaw |
| Phonetic Transcription : flÉ” |
Definition of flaw
Origin :- early 14c., "a flake" (of snow), also in Middle English "a spark of fire; a splinter," from Old Norse flaga "stone slab, flake" (see flagstone); sense of "defect, fault" first recorded 1580s, first of character, later (c.1600) of material things; probably via notion of a "fragment" broken off.
- noun imperfection
- The Inspector seized on the one flaw left him for defense against her indictment.
- Extract from : « Within the Law » by Marvin Dana
- The most carping could have found no flaw in the quiet taste of his attire.
- Extract from : « The Black Bag » by Louis Joseph Vance
- It was more; it was a mistake, a flaw in her diplomacy; for Calendar intercepted it.
- Extract from : « The Black Bag » by Louis Joseph Vance
- There was a flaw in one of the rods connected with the engine.
- Extract from : « A Woman Intervenes » by Robert Barr
- The complainant's shield was examined and counted, and not a flaw discovered.
- Extract from : « Vivian Grey » by Earl of Beaconsfield, Benjamin Disraeli
- Plato, in the spirit of the Megarian philosophy, soon discovers a flaw in the explanation.
- Extract from : « Theaetetus » by Plato
- Patrick Fitzmaurice, brogue and all, was an Irish gentleman without a flaw.
- Extract from : « Stories of a Western Town » by Octave Thanet
- There was one flaw in his happiness, but that he had forgotten for the moment.
- Extract from : « Cap'n Dan's Daughter » by Joseph C. Lincoln
- And yet the flaw was but a small one and the explanation simple.
- Extract from : « Shavings » by Joseph C. Lincoln
- He probed for some flaw, sought for some mistake that might have been made.
- Extract from : « The Tavern Knight » by Rafael Sabatini
Synonyms for flaw
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