Crossword-Solution: FLAW 4 letters, 179 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

Dictionary

Word	Word Type	Definition
Flaw	n.	A crack or breach; a gap or fissure; a defect of continuity or cohesion; as, a flaw in a knife or a vase.
Flaw	n.	A defect; a fault; as, a flaw in reputation; a flaw in a will, in a deed, or in a statute.
Flaw	n.	A sudden burst of noise and disorder; a tumult; uproar; a quarrel.
Flaw	n.	A sudden burst or gust of wind of short duration.
Flaw	v. t.	To crack; to make flaws in.
Flaw	v. t.	To break; to violate; to make of no effect.

We have 179 clues for the answer “FLAW”

Clue	Answers
"Warts and all" wart	1 answer
A tragic hero has one	1 answer
Achilles' heel, e.g.	1 answer
Blemish, imperfection	1 answer
Break or breach	1 answer
Bug of sorts.	1 answer
Character deficiency	1 answer
Chink in one's armor	1 answer
Chink in the armor, say	1 answer
Chip in a dish, e.g.	1 answer
Coloration in a diamond, e.g.	1 answer
Design problem	1 answer
Diamond blemish	1 answer
Diamond concern	1 answer
Diamond cutter's concern	1 answer
Diamond devaluer	1 answer
Diamond fault	1 answer
Diamond imperfection	1 answer
Diamond inclusion, e.g.	1 answer
Diamond irregularity	1 answer
Diamond problem	1 answer
Diamond spoiler	1 answer
Faulty part.	1 answer
Fundamental defect	1 answer
Gem devaluer	1 answer
Gemologist's consideration	1 answer
Gemstone imperfection	1 answer
Hamartia	1 answer
Having a thermal exhaust port lead straight to the reactor of your Death Star, e.g.	1 answer
Hubris, for Icarus	1 answer
Hubris, say	1 answer
Inherent mistake	1 answer
It can make a 10 a 9	1 answer
It could reduce the price of a diamond	1 answer
It lessens a diamond's value	1 answer
It may be fatal	1 answer
It might be only a scratch	1 answer
Logic problem	1 answer
Nick or chip	1 answer
Nick, for example	1 answer
Nitpicker's find	1 answer
Oedipus' arrogance, e.g.	1 answer
One may be fatal	1 answer
Perfection spoiler	1 answer
Perfectionist's stumbling block	1 answer
Persian ___ (rugmaker's deliberate mistake)	1 answer
Recall cause	1 answer
Reducer of a gem's value	1 answer
Rift in the lute.	1 answer
Scratch in a diamond, e.g.	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or a triangle.

Hint 2 anagram

RAAE

Hint 3 another clue

CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE

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Sentences with FLAW (5)

The fact is that there is one really serious flaw in this evidence to which our friend attaches so much importance.” “Indeed, Holmes! What is it?” “Only this: that I _know_ that that mark was not there when I examined the hall yesterday.

The Return of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle 1994

Its size made it a phenomenon in the diamond market; its colour placed it in a category by itself; and, to add to these elements of uncertainty, there was a defect, in the shape of a flaw, in the very heart of the stone.

The Moonstone Wilkie Collins 1994

When such a mighty structure as that turns out to have a flaw, what faith is one to put in one’s poor little views and philosophies? What is right and what is wrong? What is one really to care for? What is the proper rule of life? I am tired of trying to discover, and I suspect it ‘s not worth the trouble.

Roderick Hudson Henry James 2006

His hospitality had been without a flaw, and if he had really been wishing Bernard out of his house, he had behaved with admirable self-control.

Confidence Henry James 2006

When he has cleansed away the most mysterious sights (of his imagination), he can become without a flaw.

Tao Teh King Lao-Tze 1995

Quotes with FLAW (3)

Depression is the flaw in love. To be creatures who love, we must be creatures who can despair at what we lose, and depression is the mechanism of that despair.

Andrew Solomon The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

We become so absorbed in our flaws and faults that we forget that it is better to be a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. To have flaws is beauty in itself, a fact so frightening that we hurry to hide them from sight and tarnish the whole in the process of comparing ourselves to others.

Forrest Curran Purple Buddha Project: Purple Book of Self-Love

I have gone around observing your activities from the outside. Because of this I have also been able to see things to which you have been blind... Every morning you have gone to work, but you have never been fully awake. Of course, you have seen the sun and the moon, the stars in the sky, and everything that moves, but you haven't really seen it at all. It is different for the Joker, because he was put into this world with a flaw: He sees too clearly and too much.

Jostein Gaarder The Solitaire Mystery

Where this answer appears

Appears in: AARP, Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Rock & Roll, The Atlantic, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 257 times in crossword archives (1952–2025).