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Leakiness

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Leak´i`ness
n.1.The quality of being leaky.
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Noun1.leakiness - the condition of permitting leaks or leakage; "the leakiness of the roof"; "the heart valve's leakiness"; "the leakiness of the boat made it dangerous to use"
condition, status - a state at a particular time; "a condition (or state) of disrepair"; "the current status of the arms negotiations"


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Pervez Musharraf of the leakiness of his country's nuclear program, it would still rake another three years before the full dimension of the secret sales of Pakistani nuclear technology to Iran, Libya, and North Korea would be revealed.
In Hagedorn's writing, tsismis (Tagalog for "gossip," sometimes spelled chismis), in its very leakiness as an uncircumscribed narrative (it is described in Dogeaters as a form that "ebbs and flows," 101), and as a narrative that is often exaggerated, comes to typify the discursive transgression of much Asian American women's writing.
A typical home squanders 50 watts to this leakiness.
 
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