Synonym: bad, faulty. Similar words: effective, effectively, effectiveness, defect, elective, invective, objective, adjective. Meaning: [dɪ'fektɪv] adj. 1. having a defect 2. markedly subnormal in structure or function or intelligence or behavior 3. not working properly.
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61, Mansell admitted drink-driving, two charges of driving with defective tyres and driving on a motorway while a provisional licence holder.
62, Most protocols currently use replication defective retroviruses, which can very efficiently achieve stable integration into human somatic cells.
63, G was not required to admit that Rely was defective or that the company violated any laws.
64, This is an unsatisfactory position when what he really wants is to have the defective goods repaired or replaced.
65, Small print, dense layout, footnotes and detailed diagrams can be very demanding for some pupils with defective vision.
66, Sometimes the party in default makes an offer to put things right[sentencedict.com], e.g. the seller offers to buy back defective goods.
67, While it strikes men twice as often, women can also carry the defective gene and pass it along to their children.
68, It is thought to reflect defective cell proliferation control and delayed onset of normal differentiation.
69, Henry's memory, of course, seemed only defective in matters that immediately concerned him.
70, Its purpose is to introduce a strict liability regime on producers of defective products.
71, The corresponding chromosome in the other parent was found to be defective.
72, The Scania soon proved to be seriously defective and not of merchantable quality.
73, If the test shows a woman carries a defective gene, there is a limit to what can be done.
74, Wicked people and criminals are victims of their negative beliefs, bad values and habits, and defective characters. Dr T.P.Chia
75, Suits by consumers alleged that the product is defective and fraudulently marketed.
76, But there is rarely any direct correlation between defective products and liability awards.
77, Now they think they can cure the defective gene in the lungs.
78, All such notices are illegal because they try to limit a customer's right to return defective goods.sentencedict.com
79, The reversibility depended upon the permanence of severe retardation whereas infants are not defective and their human potential is a fact.
80, Any analysis of human behavior which neglected these facts would be defective indeed.
81, Production and maintenance of Rat-1 fibroblasts stably expressing the c-Myc-ER fusion protein and the defective c-Myc mutant protein 106-143c-Myc-ER have been described.
82, Where a defective product is used as a component by another manufacturer, there will be two defective products and two producers.
83, It also has a built-in fault detection system which effectively off-lines defective elements, while the remainder continue operations.
84, Best guess here is a defective battery, which normally keeps track of time when the computer is turned off.
85, And developments which did not contribute to, nor necessarily seek that objective were for that reason defective.
86, Table 18, below, shows the percentages of all defective items which suffered from the specific types of damage noted.
87, These measures will show the distance at which the child with defective vision can be expected to discriminate visually presented material.
88, Obviously the teaching, or the learning, or the memory span, or the example shown by senior staff was defective.
89, The fact that the goods are of defective quality is usually irrelevant in deciding whether they correspond with their description.
90, This is a rare familial disorder in which conjugated bilirubin levels are increased due to defective excretion of bilirubin in the bile.
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