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defective

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
defective/dɪˈfektɪv/

▶adjective

1 imperfect or faulty.

2 lacking or deficient: dystrophin is commonly defective in muscle tissue.

– derivatives
defectively adverb,
defectiveness noun.

'defective' also found in these Oxford entries:

eyeglass - fault - gene therapy - glasses - gout - manky - mental defective - nebula - purblind - reality testing - rogue - trick - tunnel vision - vicious - waster

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'Need' as a defective verb in the past?
"to expect" as a defective verb?
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