What's the difference between amiss and flaw?

Amiss


Definition:

  • (adv.) Astray; faultily; improperly; wrongly; ill.
  • (a.) Wrong; faulty; out of order; improper; as, it may not be amiss to ask advice.
  • (n.) A fault, wrong, or mistake.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "The economy, stupid" is a plausible-sounding answer, but it is stupidly amiss.
  • (2) T-Mobile: ‘Restricted Bling’ (starts at 10:21) Rap star Drake demonstrates extraordinary compliance no matter what’s asked of him in this funny advert for T-Mobile which aims to suggest that the network’s rivals “ruin everything”, but a longer version with him actually incorporating the lines “device eligible for upgrade after 24 months” and “streaming music will incur data charges” into his song wouldn’t go amiss.
  • (3) The coroner found that Ben continued to "play enthusiastically", and "displayed no immediately obvious physical signs that anything was amiss", but in the video, his symptoms clearly tally with those described on the Scat card.
  • (4) How this flora is controlled and what is amiss when virulent or pathogenic bacteria can cause infection are fascinating questions.
  • (5) This is the first time in my reread I've found something amiss: a King novel that doesn't have the story to back itself up.
  • (6) They do seem entirely unaware of contradictions in their arguments – Senator Cory Bernardi, for example, seeing nothing amiss in attacking Turnbull for distracting from the government’s message by responding when commentator Andrew Bolt accused him of leadership manoeuvring on national television and a nationally-syndicated newspaper column.
  • (7) Even the Guardian found nothing amiss in running a story about this and not quoting anyone who currently sells sex .
  • (8) Yes, of course it is, but a bit of humility amongst politicians never goes amiss.
  • (9) But more self-imposed quarantine wouldn't go amiss; more baristas who stay home; more coffee cups that remain untouched by those malign particles.
  • (10) Michael’s mam, my mother-in-law, rang our landline, which was a sign something was amiss, and tearfully delivered the news that Michael had taken his own life.
  • (11) This is not to say grassroot efforts may go amiss but we must not forget the historical socio-economic issues countries are still entrenched in.
  • (12) When the fixture list came out Advocaat would have fancied Sunderland’s chances of having six points by now but something looks seriously amiss within a side requiring a radical rebuild.
  • (13) The residents of Wang Kelian sensed something was amiss when a number of people stumbled on to their streets, weak and injured, and began to beg for food and water.
  • (14) Selby can't hit the yellow, so foul and amiss is called, and then again - this time he gets much closer.
  • (15) That isn’t, of course, because the NHS has taken to medieval blood-letting techniques, but rather because those who showed up at the infirmary door will have disproportionately had something seriously amiss.
  • (16) He is showing encouraging signs of having got the social care message, but a little forceful reminding cannot go amiss.
  • (17) Many new possibilities for treatment which have appeared recently have resulted from the amission of page limitation.
  • (18) Physiocal examination on amission demonstrated revealed a pulsating mass in the midabdomen, absence of pulsation of the right femoral artery and cold pale skin of the right leg.
  • (19) I wouldn’t imagine that people will get enough to cover their whole costs, but I would think that a payment to at least cover some expenses wouldn’t go amiss,” he said.
  • (20) A couple of days off in Blackburn wouldn't go amiss.

Flaw


Definition:

  • (n.) A crack or breach; a gap or fissure; a defect of continuity or cohesion; as, a flaw in a knife or a vase.
  • (n.) A defect; a fault; as, a flaw in reputation; a flaw in a will, in a deed, or in a statute.
  • (n.) A sudden burst of noise and disorder; a tumult; uproar; a quarrel.
  • (n.) A sudden burst or gust of wind of short duration.
  • (v. t.) To crack; to make flaws in.
  • (v. t.) To break; to violate; to make of no effect.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, each of the studies had numerous methodological flaws which biased their results against finding a relationship: either their outcome measures had questionable validity, their research designs were inappropriate, or the statistical analyses were poorly conceived.
  • (2) Its experiments are so hopelessly flawed that the results are meaningless."
  • (3) Clute and Harrison took a scalpel to the flaws of the science fiction we loved, and we loved them for it.
  • (4) I can still see flaws in what I'm doing, but I think I delivered.
  • (5) In an interview with the Guardian, James Hansen, the world's pre-eminent climate scientist, said any agreement likely to emerge from the negotiations would be so deeply flawed that it would be better to start again from scratch.
  • (6) We conclude that individual case review can be severely flawed and therefore should not be used to measure institutional quality of patient care.
  • (7) The power of the landed elite is often cited as a major structural flaw in Pakistani politics – an imbalance that hinders education, social equality and good governance (there is no agricultural tax in Pakistan).
  • (8) The council offered him a tea urn | Frances Ryan Read more Government attempts to decrease the disproportionately high levels of unemployment among disabled people have had little impact, the report notes, while notorious “fit-for-work” tests were riven with flaws.
  • (9) Michael Brune, executive director of the Sierra Club, said he was "outraged" by what he described as the administration's "deeply flawed analysis and what can only be interpreted as lip service to one of the greatest threats to our children's future: climate disruption".
  • (10) What the film does, though, is use these incidents to build an idiosyncratic but insightful picture of Lawrence, played indelibly by Peter O'Toole in his debut role: a complicated, egomaniacal and physically masochistic man, at once god-like and all too flawed, with a tenuous grip both on reality and on sanity.
  • (11) fbi justified homicide chart Academics and specialists have long been aware of flaws in the FBI numbers, which are based on voluntary submissions by local law enforcement agencies of paperwork known as supplementary homicide reports.
  • (12) The system was "flawed" and the rules were "vague".
  • (13) Most of the 138 studies contained serious flaws in research design, such as lack of control subjects, unspecified manner of data collection, and absence of diagnostic criteria.
  • (14) Poor crossing undermined Liverpool in the first leg, Klopp had claimed, but the flaw was remedied quickly in the return.
  • (15) A variety of quality tests, of biomechanical screws, are used, before performing the operations, that flaws may be detected.
  • (16) The sugar tax was greeted with hostility by the industry and Wright argues that the levy, introduced by the chancellor in the budget , will be undermined by flawed analysis of its impact.
  • (17) Flaws in the design, execution and analysis of randomized clinical trials have been eliminated gradually over the past 35 years.
  • (18) A report released on Wednesday said Prevent was badly flawed , potentially counterproductive and risked trampling on the basic rights of young Muslims.
  • (19) A flawed heroine of the anti-apartheid struggle, she is unlikely to keep a low profile in the coming days or to bite her lip if she believes Mandela's memory is being betrayed.
  • (20) Considerable scholarly exertion has gone into describing the flaws in each count.