Crossword-Solution: DEFECTIVELY 11 letters, 82 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 23

These we interpret--though always, by the way, defectively--only by analogy with what we have ourselves experienced.

Nothing could be trusted to servants that was not, in some way, defectively done, causing repeated complaints from the boarders.

Out of these materials and other scattered documents and notices it is possible to reconstruct--though somewhat defectively--the figure of a man who played an important rŰle in his own day; but whose name has long since lost its significance--even in the ears of scholars.

Even in Spain, where each department has its own minister, born and reared in the locality, where there are a press and a public opinion, where the opposition frankly opens the eyes of the government and keeps it informed, everything moves along imperfectly and defectively; thus it is a miracle that here things are not completely topsyturvy in the lack of these safeguards, and having to live and work under the shadow of a most powerful opposition.

What Taine had most admired in him was the iron will with which, left, at nineteen years of age, penniless, and defectively educated, as head of his family, he had kept his mother and brothers and sisters by his work.