Vocabulary
flaw
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
having or characterized by a fundamental weakness or imperfection.
Urdu meaning
نقص، خامی، عیب، قصور
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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We are ensuring they drown somewhere less .The real flaw lies in the legal architecture underpinning all of this.
Dawn Editorials —
Notice, consent, harm
— 2026-04-17
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The NCMC appears to be an attempt to correct that flaw by centralising authority, and aligning economic, security and communication strategies on one platform.
Dawn Editorials —
Centralised authority
— 2026-04-10
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The treaty held for 65 years precisely because of those safeguards, and their removal was an act of geopolitical ambition, not a design flaw.
Dawn Editorials —
Rethinking water treaties
— 2026-03-12
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However, such discomfort should be seen as a sad drawback of the democratic culture and not as a flaw in the Constitution.
Dawn Editorials —
Faith of voters
— 2026-02-24
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Wishes are communicated as targets, outcomes are mistaken for reforms, and reform itself is reduced to rhetoric.Most `exit plans` suffer from a basic flaw which confuses aspirations with instruments.
Dawn Editorials —
Road to exiting IMF
— 2026-01-28
Synonyms
unsound, defective, faulty, distorted, inaccurate, incorrect, erroneous, imprecise.
Curator example
“a fatally flawed strategy”
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