The lobe was imperfectly developed. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : imperfect vision. ,imperfect knowledge. From Dictionary.com.
A phrase imperfectly translatable, meaning, as near as may be, having flitter-mice in his campanile. From Wordnik.com. [The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 1] Reference
Modern video players do not reveal video-file suffixes, and captions and subtitles imperfectly capture the spoken words in a video. From Wordnik.com. [Searching Just got Smarter] Reference
To say that New Orleans' urban mostly black youth are "educationally underserved" is like saying the Saints performed "imperfectly" against Seattle: a huge understatement. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2004-09-01] Reference
While these "imperfectly" marked ballots still contain the voter's political expression, their intent, machines, not being human, can not discern the voter's intent on the ballot. From Wordnik.com. [Voter intent: Granite State bedrock for election integrity] Reference
Mouton's arrival, but had been imperfectly executed. From Wordnik.com. [Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War] Reference
Like most such elaborate plans, it worked imperfectly. From Wordnik.com. [A Cloud Of Terror--And Suspicion] Reference
Her investigations had very imperfectly enlightened her. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
But they betray the fact that man is imperfectly rational. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
The goals of both those wars have only imperfectly been met. From Wordnik.com. [War Without End] Reference
It can be settled — if imperfectly — only through politics. From Wordnik.com. [The Things We Need to Do Now] Reference
It can be settled — however imperfectly — only through politics. From Wordnik.com. [Winning In Afghanistan] Reference
No tinkering with government programs that currently work, if only imperfectly. From Wordnik.com. [Mail Call] Reference
He may recite them imperfectly; he may modify them in this or in that particular. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
But only children direct fury at those who've performed admirably, if imperfectly. From Wordnik.com. [Evan Handler: Who Are We?] Reference
So far the whole expedition was over country known, if imperfectly, to the Greeks. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference
Island, and on account of the difficulty in traversing it is but imperfectly known. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
But many were learning and understood imperfectly; it was for them he paused frequently. From Wordnik.com. [Flamsted quarries] Reference
The hippopotamus being an inhabitant of the Upper Nile, was imperfectly known to the ancients. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 33, June 15, 1850] Reference
"The stimulus was a sensible idea, but imperfectly structured" is not a great election message. From Wordnik.com. [The Keynesian experiment] Reference
I have described very imperfectly a few of the battles and skirmishes that took place during this time. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
We have seen that, in the organization of a given society, the social will may be imperfectly expressed. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
But, besides the Orinoco in South America, there was the St. Lawrence in North America, still very imperfectly known. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference
We must now return to Australia, as yet so imperfectly explored, and take up the story of the young colony at Sydney. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference
The expectation appears to have been a reasonable one, but as will be seen hereafter it was only imperfectly realized. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Remains of John Clare "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet"] Reference
The inter-relation between wood and water is as imperfectly known to dry-kiln operators as that between wood and heat. From Wordnik.com. [Seasoning of Wood] Reference
Finally, Clinton has broached, however timidly and imperfectly, sensitive issues that need to be discussed more openly. From Wordnik.com. [This Plan Too Slick] Reference
A simple garment of thin stuff, and very tight, somewhat imperfectly screens the strangely daring modesty of the ladies. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The rivers which empty into this network of channels are comparatively difficult of entrance, and but imperfectly navigable. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865] Reference
More than 160,000 Serbians remain in Kosovo, at the mercy of Kosovars, who are, in the Balkan tradition, imperfectly merciful. From Wordnik.com. [Kosovo’s Dark Meaning] Reference
And such accidents, as they are mildly termed by the improvident builders, often occur by the failure of drains imperfectly laid. From Wordnik.com. [Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles] Reference
The jerked meat they carried with them often became musty and tainted, having been imperfectly dried, or from the effects of rain. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847.] Reference
I am quite willing to admit that the rambling book has increased lately to an extent imperfectly justified by its average quality. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, July 15, 1914] Reference
A shared currency cannot rest on a patchwork quilt of national markets that are insufficiently flexible and imperfectly integrated. From Wordnik.com. [The Euro's Success Requires Liberalization] Reference
I am half convinced that the reflection is indeed the reality, the real thing which Nature imperfectly images to our grosser sense. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866] Reference
Forgetting his condition, he suddenly started to walk, came down on the stump, imperfectly healed, and produced violent hæmorrhage. From Wordnik.com. [Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War] Reference
The font is slightly off in several of the letters, as though they wore out from sheer exhaustion and had to be imperfectly replaced. From Wordnik.com. [Duty? Maybe It's Really Self-Help.] Reference
Its superior extremity forms a flattened head that fits rather imperfectly into a shallow cavity in the humeral angle of the scapula. From Wordnik.com. [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference
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