ppl. a. [f. FLAW v. + -ED1.] In senses of the vb.: a. of material things; b. of immaterial things.
a. 1632. Shirley, Ball, IV. iii.
| What wise gamester | |
| Will venture a hundred pounds to a flaw’d sixpence? |
1665. Hooke, Microgr., 6. Appearing white, like flaw’d Horn or Glass, rather than clear.
1891. E. W. Gosse, Gossip in Library, xvii. 219. There was a twist in his brain which made his pictures of real life appear like scenes looked at through flawed glass.
b. 1605. Shaks., Lear, V. iii. 196.
| But his flaw’d heart | |
| (Alacke too weake the conflict to support) | |
| Twixt two extremes of passion, ioy and greefe, | |
| Burst smilingly. |
1767. Warburton, Serm., 1 Cor. xiii. 13. The sound of a flawed and faulty heart generally accompanies the Trumpeter’s proclamation; while the action of the silent giver modestly whispers the integrity of his purpose.
1851. Thackeray, Eng. Hum., v. (1876), 320. A hero with a flawed reputation; a hero spunging for a guinea; a hero who can’t pay his landlady, and is obliged to let his honour out to hire, is absurd and his claim to heroic rank untenable.
