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faulty

[fawl-tee]

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adjective, fault·i·er, fault·i·est.

having faults or defects; imperfect.

Origin:
1300–50; Middle English fauty. See fault, -y¹

Related forms

fault·i·ly, adverb

fault·i·ness, noun

non·fault·y, adjective

un·fault·y, adjective

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When such an outlet does not work because of a faulty switch, testing is required.

Laing on how faulty family communication can make you a schizophrenic.

After all, users are on their own, with little in the way of legal redress for any damage caused by faulty software.

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When such an outlet does not work because of a faulty switch, testing is required.

Laing on how faulty family communication can make you a schizophrenic.

After all, users are on their own, with little in the way of legal redress for any damage caused by faulty software.

Today faulty human heart valves are routinely replaced with ones taken from cows and pigs.

But faulty engine nozzles or other damage to the engine could make that impossible.

Fixing faulty tags requires what's known as a tag editor.

But relying on students to come forward may be a faulty strategy.

Independent reports suggest the airline failed to implement the aircraft manufacturer's instructions to replace a faulty part.

Their tanks are rusted and their regulators are often faulty.

Lots of free and faulty interpretation commented here that is not accurate.

Your faulty memory won't hold up in court next time some moron comes out of nowhere and hits you, but this will.

That's some faulty political thinking, that's what that is.

But that argument is based on a faulty theory of money and government intervention.

It wouldn't fit, thanks to a faulty gasket on the stove.

Learning disabilities such as dyslexia and dyscalculia may arise in part from faulty sensory processing.

There was news this week of a successful attempt to correct a faulty gene that leads to blindness.

Once you've scanned and corrected your collection, don't let a house fire or faulty hard drive obliterate your work.

Eventually, faulty ideas are discarded and sound ones prevail.

Often faulty the boom is the first line of defense for targeted coastlines.

China's technocrats managed to fix its once faulty airlines.

Sometimes such deviations are caused by faulty meters.

Some of this faulty decision-making may also reflect the underlying rationale of hedge-fund investments.

If these iced up and conveyed faulty data, the pilots might have flown too slow or too fast for the conditions.

Dell has turned to its blog to address issues arising from millions of faulty computers it sold to customers.

He was responsible for submitting the faulty data, college officials said.

Modern instruments have been invented to help our faulty senses under such conditions.

In short, a cheap used car is cheap used junk if it has a faulty transmission.

Both teams have found similar markers that show the faulty gene to be close to the center of chromosome.

Hauser was reporting faulty data and included e-mails.

Currently, patients must either go under the knife to mend faulty cartilage.

Their equipment was faulty when they attempted to react ethylene and benzaldehyde under high pressure.

Learning through tests that one's defibrillator has a faulty lead can create agonizing decisions for patients and doctors.

But according to a new piece of research, many of these actions-however virtuous-arise from faulty perceptions of energy savings.

And despite the letter of the law, many pharmacists fear lawsuits if the drugs prove faulty.

Whether it will protect public health is debatable, but it will certainly protect makers of faulty anthrax vaccines.

Saying a thing is so does not make it so especially when it is based on faulty reasoning and bad science.

The victims and their survivors blamed the distillery for faulty construction and unsafe operation.

As recent research shows, bad timing in investing stems less from faulty reasoning than from faulty emotions.

DrJ50 might want to inform these news agencies of their faulty reasoning as well.

Coupled with crash injury reports, the data are used to enhance performance or to help in recalls of faulty systems.

The faulty evidence masquerading as science led to the execution of one of the men, a.

Many of the opponents contend that the department's proposed rule is based on incomplete data and faulty reasoning.

Faulty logic, and faulty psy ops, if that's your mission here.

Architects usually avoid the specifics of construction in order to sidestep liability for faulty results.

Then substantiate your claims by using faulty research methods and superficial interviews.

As the science of genetics developed, eugenics turned out to be faulty science, ie pseudo-science.

Investigators laid the blame on faulty steel plates connecting the beams of the bridge.

It could be that the book value is overstated by faulty or even criminal methodology.

Data was homogenized in order to extract as much information as possible from faulty records.

The faulty basic premise of b-school makes it more/less impossible to discuss honestly the role of b-schools in the society.

Ignorance matters only when it leads to faulty judgments.

Presenting one incident as proof that the whole system is faulty is lazy.

It would be difficult for these nations to police faulty diesel engines and wood stoves.

Just against faulty reasoning and in favour of cool, unemotional thinking when studying technical solutions.

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World English Dictionary

faulty (ˈfɔːltɪ)

—*adj* , faultier, faultiest
1.	defective or imperfect
2.	archaic culpable

'faultily

—*adv*

'faultiness

—n

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
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Word Origin & History

faulty

late 14c., from fault + -y (2).

Slang Dictionary

faulty definition

mod.
fake. : Faulty leather on this chair. Gimme the real stuff.
mod.
wrong. : No. You are just faulty about the number.

Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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