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• s  having a defect
  I returned the appliance because it was defective
• s  markedly subnormal in structure or function or intelligence or behavior
  defective speech
• s  not working properly
  a defective appliance

• A federal jury on Thursday rejected a New Orleans family's claims that the government-issued trailer they lived in after Hurricane Katrina was defective and exposed them to .
• The disorder, as its name implies, is the result of a defective gene on the X chromosome, one of the pair of chromosomes that determines gender.
• Until recently, the parents of one defective child had only two courses to follow if they wanted another baby.

• faulty
• bad

News & Articles

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• Emergency recall issued on propane cylinders
  Defective cylinders carry a risk of leaking flammable gas or rupturing without warning.
  June 16, 2013 - Norwalk Reflector
• Da Vinci Intuitive Robot On NBC Rock Center
  As a Defective Product Liability attorney and Texas medical doctor, I have written extensively about the kind of injuries folks are experiencing with the Da Vinci Robot. NBC News program, Rock Center, recently had a program about this device and the injuries experienced. What is Da Vinci Robotic Surgery? In robotic surgery, a doctor sits at a console several feet from the patient and looks into ...
  June 16, 2013 - Injury Board
• Lawsuit: REI fired worker paralyzed riding defective REI bicycle
  Lawsuit: REI fired worker paralyzed riding defective REI bicycle Seattle Post-Intelligencer Copyright 2013 Seattle Post-Intelligencer. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Published 10:46 pm, Wednesday, June 12, 2013 A former REI employee, paralyzed after his REI-brand bicycle broke apart during a crash, has filed a lawsuit against his ...
  June 15, 2013 - seattlepi.com

Quotes

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• Richard Blumenthal in MiamiHerald.com
  These flight paths will bombard residents, sensitive wildlife areas and state parks with noise and pollution, damaging air quality and quality of life,Blumenthal said in a statement. "We will fight to rescind these defective flight paths...
• Nancy Nord in International Herald Tribune
  Anything that impacts the safety of children is of real importance,said Nancy Nord, acting head of the Consumer Product Safety Commission. "This agency will not hesitate to recall products that are defective and we take very, very...
• Eleanor Smeal in FOXNews
  This ban, which was defeated pretty solidly last time, is essentially the same ban this time but the language is more defective. We take it very seriously and so we're hoping that it will be defeated,Smeal said.