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Meanings of defective education in English

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Usage of defective education in English
1
Like many men of defective education, he had very vague views about college.
Bert Lloyd's Boyhood: A Story from Nova Scotia
2
I considered my youth, my defective education, and my limited views.
Arthur Mervyn; Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793
3
This is partly due to defective education during childhood in regard to the sexes.
Herself: Talks with Women Concerning Themselves
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He hastened to remove all cause of complaint on the score of defective education.
Philip Winwood / A Sketch of the Domestic History of an American...
5
He was a farmer, of popular manners, but defective education.
Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet / ...
6
Is that from defective education in arithmetic?-Yes, from defective education.
Second Shetland Truck System Report
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We should answer the question thus: Because his defective education left him no other resource.
Famous Americans of Recent Times
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She had had a very defective education, and what there was of it was all for show.
There & Back
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It is to be set down, on the other hand, to the morally defective education they have received.
A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume 3 / Taken from a View of the ...
10
He had so improved the defective education of his youth as to be not only classical, but learned.
The Memories of Fifty Years / Containing Brief Biographical Noti...
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Very soon they concluded, that the speech Arabella had heard was due to their darling papa's defective education.
Sandra Belloni — Volume 1
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He excused himself for his defective education on the ground that he had been overworked from first to last.
Essays of Travel
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He here realized, however, more fully, his defective education, which he determined to improve with the least possible delay.
Cleveland Past and Present: Its Representative Men / Comprising ...
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Zell was giving the best love of which her heart was capable in view of her defective education and character.
What Can She Do?
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A consciousness of a defective education and a certainty of a want of time unfit me for such an undertaking.
George Washington, Volume II
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Thanks to defective education the most enlightened of us go through life much like a dim-sighted man who has no spectacles.
Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise
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