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Meanings of so defective in anglès

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Usage of so defective in anglès
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The Ephemerides and Salmuth describe uvulae so defective as to be hardly noticeable.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
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A memory so defective that he really cannot speak without reading.
The Art of Public Speaking
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Suppose we ask, Could God speak Hebrew- alanguageso defective in philosophical terms?
Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith / Being an Examination o...
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Is the general law of nations so defective that a passenger steamer can be captured?
The Coming Conquest of England
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Without Ali there, the girls suddenly seemed so defective.
Heartless
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The machinery of the Act was so defective as to render difficult the successful prosecution of offenders.
Problems in American Democracy
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Certain men and women are so defective, physically, mentally, or morally, as to be unable to find mates.
Applied Eugenics
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These laws are so defective as to give unquestioned advantage to dishonesty and corruption in most elections upon referendum questions.
Woman Suffrage By Federal Constitutional Amendment
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This homely parable illustrates much of the Old Testament legislation which we find so defective, when judged by our standards.
Who Wrote the Bible? : a Book for the People
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Grisell's attention was a new thing, and the priest's pronunciation was so defective to her ear that she could hardly follow.
Grisly Grisell; Or, The Laidly Lady of Whitburn: A Tale of the W...
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Some are sterile hybrids, or they spawn offspring so defective that farmers must purchase new seed each year- aboonfor seed companies.
The world without us
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I flew to Edinburgh the moment I heard of Mr Johnson's arrival; but so defective was my intelligence, that I came too late.
The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
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Of course the vegetables froze after the water congealed, or the cellar may have been so defective that both froze at the same time.
Nature's Serial Story
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He says that the military dispositions are so defective, that there is not a young officer in the army capable of committing a similar mistake.
The Idler in France
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He likens it to the intuition of number, in which some savages are so defective that they cannot really and easily count more than three.
Physics and Politics, or, Thoughts on the application of the pri...
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But though he had mastered many languages, he was so defective in the common branches of knowledge, that at first he could not teach them.
Self Help; with Illustrations of Conduct and Perseverance
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