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  • noun Plural form of imperfect.

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Examples

  • A since-infancy animal lover, the model-pretty woman has adopted many castoffs and imperfects over the years.

    A purpose in life for 'ugly dog' Elwood, owner 2008

  • That said, they were also still done in an "artsy" way, with good lighting and using a vintage 70's black and white look to minimize and hide some of the imperfects instead of airbrushing the smeg out of them on the "well lit" covers.

    UFies.org: Photography Archives 2010

  • That said, they were also still done in an "artsy" way, with good lighting and using a vintage 70's black and white look to minimize and hide some of the imperfects instead of airbrushing the smeg out of them on the "well lit" covers.

    UFies.org: August 2009 Archives 2009

  • For fifteen years, the sorcerer Tandor has concocted his evil plan: to gather an army of imperfects, children who are physically maimed, but who can shape the icefire that flows from the ancient device called the Heart deep under the City of Glass.

    I'm crap at this mikandra 2009

  • A imperfect union was union and we are charged with getting beyond those imperfects.

    Headline Writers At The Major Networks Slow To Get Obama's Message 2009

  • And the only ones who can stop them are us normal imperfects, who with all our faults have at least made an imperfect but livable world; not a perfect hell.

    "American Prayer" of the damned. Ann Althouse 2008

  • The verbs are first person common qal imperfects of the verb ‘to be,’ connoting continuing, unfinished action: ‘I am being that I am being,’ or ‘I am the Is-ing One,’ that is, ‘the One Who Always Is.’

    THE NAMES OF JESUS RUBEL SHELLY 1999

  • The verbs are first person common qal imperfects of the verb ‘to be,’ connoting continuing, unfinished action: ‘I am being that I am being,’ or ‘I am the Is-ing One,’ that is, ‘the One Who Always Is.’

    THE NAMES OF JESUS RUBEL SHELLY 1999

  • All the three imperfects used here have the "ah hortative" added (jaqtul elevatum), a common form with the first person imperfect.

    Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1 1892-1972 1942

  • In the Greek of the LXX, which in this point represents the Alexadrian vernacular, thematic 2d aorists and imperfects may equally take - san.

    A Grammar of Septuagint Greek 1856-1924 1905

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