THESAURUS
flaw
aberrancy, aberration, abysm, abyss, arroyo, bad habit, besetting sin, birthmark, black mark, blackhead, blast, bleb, blemish, blister, blot, blow, box canyon, breach, break, bug, bulla, canyon, catch, cavity, chap, chasm, check, chimney, chink, chip, cicatrix, cicatrize, cleavage, cleft, cleuch, clough, col, comedo, coulee, couloir, crack, cranny, crater, craze, crevasse, crevice, cut, cwm, damage, deface, defacement, defect, defection, defectiveness, deficiency, defile, deform, deformation, deformity, dell, delusion, deviancy, dike, discredit, disfiguration, disfigure, disfigurement, distort, distortion, ditch, donga, draw, drawback, errancy, erroneousness, error, excavation, failing, failure, fallaciousness, fallacy, falseness, falsity, fault, faultiness, faute, fissure, flawedness, flume, flurry, foible, fracture, frailty, freckle, furrow, gap, gape, gash, gorge, groove, gulch, gulf, gully, gust, hamartia, harm, hemangioma, heresy, heterodoxy, hickey, hole, hurt, illusion, imperfection, inadequacy, incision, infirmity, joint, keloid, kink, kloof, leak, lentigo, little problem, loophole, mar, mark, milium, misapplication, misconstruction, misdoing, misfeasance, misinterpretation, misjudgment, mistake, moat, mole, moral
flaw, needle scar, nevus, notch, nullah, opening, pass, passage, peccancy, perforation, perversion, pimple, pit, pock, pockmark, port-wine mark, port-wine stain, problem, puncture, pustule, ravine, rent, rift, rime, rip, ruin, rupture, scab, scar, scarify, scissure, scratch, scud, seam, sebaceous cyst, self-contradiction, shortcoming, sin, sinfulness, slit, slot, snag, something missing, split, spoil, stain, stigmatize, strawberry mark, sty, taint, tear, track, trench, twist, unorthodoxy, untrueness, untruth, untruthfulness, valley, verruca, vesicle, vice, void, vulnerable place, wadi, wale, warp, wart, weak link, weak point, weak side, weaken, weakness, weal, welt, wen, whitehead, wind gust, wrong, wrongness
ROGET THESAURUS
flaw
Imperfection
N
imperfection, imperfectness, deficiency, inadequacy, peccancy, immaturity, fault, defect, weak point, screw loose,
flaw, gap, twist, taint, attainder, bar sinister, hole in one's coat, blemish, weakness, half blood, shortcoming, drawback, seamy side, mediocrity, no great shakes, no great catch, not much to boast of, one-horse shay, imperfect, not perfect, deficient, defective, faulty, unsound, tainted, out of order, out of tune, cracked, leaky, sprung, warped, lame, injured, peccant, frail, inadequate, crude, incomplete, found wanting, below par, short-handed, below its full strength, under its full strength, below its full complement, indifferent, middling, ordinary, mediocre, average, so-so, coucicouci, milk and water, tolerable, fair, passable, pretty well, pretty good, rather good, moderately good, good, good enough, well enough, adequate, decent, not bad, not amiss, inobjectionable, unobjectionable, admissible, bearable, only better than nothing, secondary, inferior, second-rate, second-best, one-horse, almost, to a limited extent, rather, pretty, moderately, passing, only, considering, all things considered, enough, surgit amari aliquid.
Discontinuity
N
discontinuity, disjunction, anacoluthon, interruption, break, fracture,
flaw, fault, crack, cut, gap, solution of continuity, caesura, broken thread, parenthesis, episode, rhapsody, patchwork, intermission, alternation, dropping fire, discontinuous, unsuccessive, broken, interrupted, dicousu, disconnected, unconnected, discrete, disjunctive, fitful, spasmodic, desultory, intermitting, occasional, intermittent, alternate, recurrent, at intervals, by snatches, by jerks, by skips, by catches, by fits and starts, skippingly, per saltum, longo intervallo, like 'angel visits few and far between'.
Blemish
N
blemish, disfigurement, deformity, adactylism,
flaw, defect, injury, spots on the sun, eyesore, stain, blot, spot, spottiness, speck, speckle, blur, tarnish, smudge, dirt, freckle, mole, macula, patch, blotch, birthmark, blobber lip, blubber lip, blain, maculation, scar, wem, pustule, whelk, excrescence, pimple, pitted, freckled, discolored, imperfect, blobber-lipped, bloodshot, injured.
Interval
N
interval, interspace, separation, break, gap, opening, hole, chasm, hiatus, caesura, interruption, interregnum, interstice, lacuna, cleft, mesh, crevice, chink, rime, creek, cranny, crack, chap, slit, fissure, scissure, rift,
flaw, breach, rent, gash, cut, leak, dike, ha-ha, gorge, defile, ravine, canon, crevasse, abyss, abysm, gulf, inlet, frith, strait, gully, pass, furrow, abra, barranca, barranco, clove, gulch, notch, yawning gulf, hiatus maxime, hiatus valde deflendus, parenthesis, void, incompleteness, period, interim (time), with an interval, far between, breachy, rimose, rimulose, at intervals, longo intervallo.
Guilt
N
guilt, guiltiness, culpability, criminality, criminousness, deviation from rectitude, sinfulness, misconduct, misbehavior, misdoing, misdeed, malpractice, fault, sin, error, transgression, dereliction, delinquency, indiscretion, lapse, slip, trip, faux pas, peccadillo,
flaw, blot, omission, failing, failure, break, bad break!, capital crime, delictum, offense, trespass, misdemeanor, misfeasance, misprision, malefaction, malfeasance, malversation, crime, felony, enormity, atrocity, outrage, deadly sin, mortal sin, deed without a name, corpus delicti, guilty, to blame, culpable, peccable, in fault, at fault, censurable, reprehensible, blameworthy, uncommendable, illaudable, weighed in the balance and found wanting, exceptionable, in flagrante delicto, red-handed, in the very act, with one's hand in the cookie jar, cui prodest scelus in fecit, culpam paena premit comes, O would the deed were good!, responsibility prevents crimes se judice nemo noce, so many laws argues so many sins.
Error
N
error, fallacy, misconception, misapprehension, misstanding, misunderstanding, inexactness, laxity, misconstruction, miscomputation, non sequitur, mis-statement, mis-report, mumpsimus, mistake, miss, fault, blunder, quiproquo, cross purposes, oversight, misprint, erratum, corrigendum, slip, blot,
flaw, loose thread, trip, stumble, botchery, slip of the tongue, slip of the lip, Freudian slip, slip of the pen, lapsus linguae, clerical error, bull, haplography, illusion, delusion, snare, false impression, false idea, bubble, self-decit, self-deception, mists of error, heresy, hallucination, false light, dream, fable, bias, misleading, erroneous, untrue, false, devoid of truth, fallacious, apocryphal, unreal, ungrounded, groundless, unsubstantial, heretical, unsound, illogical, inexact, unexact inaccurate, incorrect, indefinite, illusive, illusory, delusive, mock, ideal, spurious, deceitful, perverted, controvertible, unsustainable, unauthenticated, untrustworthy, exploded, refuted, discarded, in error, under an error, mistaken, tripping, out, out in one's reckoning, aberrant, beside the mark, wide of the mark, wide of the truth, way off, far off, astray, on a false scent, on the wrong scent, in the wrong box, outside the ballpark, at cross purposes, all in the wrong, all out, more or less, errare est humanum, mentis gratissimus error, on the dubious waves of error tost, to err is human, to forgive divine, you lie -- under a mistake.