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Flawed vs Fishy - What's the difference?

flawed | fishy |

As adjectives the difference between flawed and fishy

is that flawed is having a flaw while fishy is of, from, or similar to fish.

As a noun fishy is

(childish).

flawed

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Having a flaw
  • Flawed diamonds are generally not used in jewellery.
    His design for a perpetual motion machine is flawed because water does not flow uphill.

    Antonyms

    * perfect

    fishy

    English

    Noun

    (fishies)
  • (childish)
  • Alternative forms

    * fishie

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Of, from, or similar to fish.
  • Suspicious; inspiring doubt.
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=3 , passage=Now all this was very fine, but not at all in keeping with the Celebrity's character as I had come to conceive it. The idea that adulation ever cloyed on him was ludicrous in itself. In fact I thought the whole story fishy , and came very near to saying so.}}

    Derived terms

    * smell fishy