Faulty
['fɔːltɪ;'fɒltɪ] or ['fɔlti]
Definition
(adj.) characterized by errors; not agreeing with a model or not following established rules; 'he submitted a faulty report'; 'an incorrect transcription'; the wrong side of the road' .
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Definition
(a.) Containing faults, blemishes, or defects; imperfect; not fit for the use intended.
(a.) Guilty of a fault, or of faults; hence, blamable; worthy of censure.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Bad, defective, imperfect.[2]. Blamable, culpable, censurable, reprehensible, blameworthy, worthy of censure.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See FAULT]
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Examples
- I dare say it is very faulty. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- But these distinctions and definitions are faulty in very considerable articles. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Perdita, wedded to an imagination, careless of what is behind the veil, whose charactery is in truth faulty and vile, Perdita has renounced me. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Be my companion through life; be my guide where I am ignorant; be my master where I am faulty; be my friend always! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Magnificent-minded, grand-hearteddear, faulty little man! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Because, with every chance for being good, useful, and happy, you are faulty, lazy, and miserable. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Such behaviour as this, so exactly the reverse of her own, appeared no more meritorious to Marianne, than her own had seemed faulty to her. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- Was he not faulty as well as great? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- You have proved yourself, on the whole, less faulty than I had believed you. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- Each faulty propensity in leading him to evil, had led him likewise to punishment. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- They are a faulty set in some respects, being only of common flesh and blood like us all; but the land would be badly off without them. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- If one feigns death lions and lionesses are supposed to ignore one, according to Mr. Philander's faulty memory. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Your hiding-place, my dear Watson, was very faulty. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- If gratitude and esteem are good foundations of affection, Elizabeth's change of sentiment will be neither improbable nor faulty. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
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