Flaw
A crack or breach; a gap or fissure; a defect of continuity or cohesion; as, a flaw in a knife or a vase.
A defect; a fault; as, a flaw in reputation; a flaw in a will, in a deed, or in a statute.
A sudden burst of noise and disorder; a tumult; uproar; a quarrel.
A sudden burst or gust of wind of short duration.
To crack; to make flaws in.
To break; to violate; to make of no effect.
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Flaw Quotations
Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.
Confucius
The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.
Henry Ellis
Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
There isn't a flaw in his golf or his makeup. He will win more majors than Arnold Palmer and me combined. Somebody is going to dust my records. It might as well be Tiger, because he's such a great kid.
Jack Nicklaus
You see someone on the street, and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw.
Diane Arbus
The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Any affectation whatsoever in dress implies, in my mind, a flaw in the understanding.
Lord Chesterfield
The action carries a sense of incompleteness and frustration, but not of guilt. Victorious living does not mean perfect living in the sense of living without flaw, but it does mean adequate living, and that can be consistent with many mistakes.
E. Stanley Jones
What was bizarre, when I was younger, I never watched TV. I would rather watch a movie 100 times than to watch a TV show, just to find another nuance. I can't tell you how many times I've watched 'On the Waterfront', just to find a flaw so that I can learn and try to improve my thing.
Vin Diesel
I don't agree with everything he did in his life, but we're dealing with this Howard Hughes, at this point. And also ultimately the flaw in Howard Hughes, the curse so to speak.
Martin Scorsese
Flaw Translations
flaw in German is Fehlerstelle, Mangel
flaw in Italian is difetto, lancio, vizio
flaw in Latin is macula
flaw in Norwegian is feil, mangel
flaw in Spanish is desperfecto, brinco, falla
flaw in Swedish is spricka
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