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[ adverb ] in an imperfect or faulty way

Synonyms

amiss

Examples

"The lobe was imperfectly developed" "Miss Bennet would not play at all amiss if she practiced more"- Jane Austen

Used in print

(Raymond J. Corsini et al., Roleplaying in Business...)

To prevent the manager from deliberately controlling himself only during the sessions , they were rather lengthy ( about twenty minutes ) , the situations were imperfectly described to the manager so that he would not know what to expect , new antagonists were brought on the scene unexpectedly , and the antagonists were instructed to deliberately behave in such ways as to upset the manager and get him to operate in a manner for which he had been previously criticized .

Related terms

perfectly imperfect imperfect

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