The Ephemerides and Salmuth describe uvulae so defective as to be hardly noticeable.

A memory so defective that he really cannot speak without reading.

Suppose we ask, Could God speak Hebrew- alanguageso defective in philosophical terms?

Is the general law of nations so defective that a passenger steamer can be captured?

Without Ali there, the girls suddenly seemed so defective.

The machinery of the Act was so defective as to render difficult the successful prosecution of offenders.

Certain men and women are so defective, physically, mentally, or morally, as to be unable to find mates.

These laws are so defective as to give unquestioned advantage to dishonesty and corruption in most elections upon referendum questions.

This homely parable illustrates much of the Old Testament legislation which we find so defective, when judged by our standards.

Grisell's attention was a new thing, and the priest's pronunciation was so defective to her ear that she could hardly follow.

Some are sterile hybrids, or they spawn offspring so defective that farmers must purchase new seed each year- aboonfor seed companies.

I flew to Edinburgh the moment I heard of Mr Johnson's arrival; but so defective was my intelligence, that I came too late.

Of course the vegetables froze after the water congealed, or the cellar may have been so defective that both froze at the same time.

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.

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.

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.