flaw

Converse of object

• expose: To expose the deep flaws in the current mass media.
• exploit: That worked by exploiting a flaw in the Windows NT operating system.
• uncover: In South Carolina she uncovered flaws in the state's forensic crime lab and exposed dangerous practices in funeral homes.
• gape: The sharp eyed among you might have noticed a gaping flaw in this 1812 engraving by J. Greig.
• fix: It is a useful tool for tweaking your green screen during setup, rather than trying to fix flaws in the edit bay.
• reveal: Yet when these UFO stories are subjected to critical examination, they nearly always reveal fatal flaws.

Adjective modifier

• fatal: Fatal flaws Philip Cowley responds to last issue's Pilgrim column Think back a touch under nine years, to May 7 1997.
• fundamental: John Prescott's decision contained a number of fundamental flaws.
• methodological: I will point out the methodological flaws in the project.
• glaring: Nevertheless when the UKCCCR electric fields study finally appeared reporting negative findings, its glaring flaws were not commented on.
• inherent: In his opinion the UK Government's means-tested benefits provided an appropriate solution to the inherent flaws in the present system of Council Tax.
• unpatched: Over the past weeks, security researchers have reported several unpatched flaws in Internet Explorer, the Web browser component of Windows.

Modifying Another Word

• fatally: The Great Shield was fatally flawed; in time the tiny fracture would grow into a gaping wound.
• fundamentally: Indeed, in some cases they're fundamentally flawed.
• deeply: However, in their present forms they are deeply flawed.
• methodologically: The studies were methodologically flawed and of insufficient power.

Noun used with modifier

• security: The most recent version fixes a few known security flaws in earlier versions.

Preposition: in

• logic: Flaws in the logic of the Big Bang also led to false predictions.
• argument: However there at least two flaws in this argument.

Preposition: from

• outset: The problem is that the whole basis of the agreement has been flawed from the outset.