imperfectly
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- r in an imperfect or faulty way
The lobe was imperfectly developed
- That perception crosses over, though imperfectly, into reality.
- The chest is large, white and flabby, suggesting a beached sea otter, and it's pocked with what looks like dozens of tiny, imperfectly attached hair-implant tufts.
- Recent historical research has stressed that China was modernizing and internationalizing fast, if imperfectly, in the half-century between the late Qing dynasty and the outbreak .