9 Verbs to Use for the Word imperfect

They are crowded together in a small hut, sometimes having an imperfect, and sometimes no floorand seldom raised from the ground, illy ventilated, and surrounded with filth.

I had intended they should see the curtain drop without any discovery of the deceit; unable to invent any new incident, I left the conclusion imperfect as I found it: but they saw a more strict poetical justice done; they saw the rightful child restored to its parents, and the nurse overwhelmed with shame, and threatened with the severest punishment.

17.With an adverb of comparison or preference, as better, rather, best, as lief, or as lieve, the auxiliary had seems sometimes to be used before the infinitive to form the potential imperfect or pluperfect: as, "He that loses by getting, had better lose than get.

This was his condition till the beginning of April 1799, when he was seized with a paralytic stroke, which rendered his speech imperfect for several days.

I am persuaded to sketch the following imperfect outlines only from a conviction that the great novelist has in this respect been neglected.

This his version is little dignified, and therefore likely will it appears to thee much imperfect.

Then shall we fight with new courage for the right, and abhor the imperfect, the unjust, and the mean.

"In referring to such a division of the day as is past, we use the imperfect.

"To express the present and past imperfect of the active and neuter verb, the auxiliary do is sometimes used: I do (now) love; I did (then) love.

9 Verbs to Use for the Word  imperfect