misfeature

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  1. A distorted feature; a bad feature or trait. N. E. D. He [man] has his Winter too of pale misfeature, Or else he would forego his mortal nature. Keats, Sonnet, Human Seasons.
  2. To mar the features of; distort or misrepresent the features of. The strange misfeaturing mask that I saw so amazed me, that I Stumbled on deck, half mad. Tennyson, The Wreck, ix.

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  • Today I come into a nice bug (misfeature?) of SSIS 2008 and I'd like to share it with you. —  SQLblog.com - The SQL Server blog spot on the web
  • I have noticed an annoying misfeature of the sound slipping out of sync with the video, though, sometimes by as much as two or three seconds. —  Matthew Skala's home page (RSS)
  • Firefox 3 has that annoying misfeature of "awesomebar", but with the Old Location Bar add-on and some tweaking of the inis you can get the address bar to behave almost as well as it did in version 2, and after that it's OK. —  Original Signal - Transmitting Digg
  • Md at debian. org tales of a debian maintainer lighttpd has an annoying misfeature which makes it not generate the —  Planet Debian
  • HTTP cache validators (the ETag and Last-Modified headers) when the object requested has no Content-Type, to work around a Firefox misfeature. —  Planet Debian
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