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adjective

Faulty adj.

Containing faults, blemishes, or defects; imperfect; not fit for the use intended. "Created once So goodly and erect, though faulty since."

Guilty of a fault, or of faults; hence, blamable; worthy of censure. "The king doth speak... as one which is faulty."

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Etymology of 'Faulty'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... the poem which has brought, with a few others, so much censure and criticism upon this volume, although it contains nearly seventy-five other selections quite irreproachable in character, however faulty they may be ...

— Poems of Passion • Ella Wheeler Wilcox

... defence of mysticism seems to be faulty as logic, and open to technical criticisms, which I have explained elsewhere. I shall not here repeat these criticisms, since they are lengthy and difficult, but shall instead attempt an analysis of the state of mind from which mystical logic ...

— Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays • Bertrand Russell

... traditions of American arms. Of kindred spirit and far more illustrious was Captain Oliver Hazard Perry of the United States Navy. Perry dealt with and overcame, on a much larger scale, similar obstacles and discouragements—untrained men, lack of material, faulty support—but was ready and eager to meet the enemy in the hour of need. If it is a sound axiom never to despise the enemy, it is nevertheless true that excessive prudence has lost many an action. Farragut's motto has been the keynote ...

— The Fight for a Free Sea: A Chronicle of the War of 1812 - The Chronicles of America Series, Volume 17 • Ralph D. Paine

... of Winchester, y'are a little, By your good fauour, too sharpe; Men so Noble, How euer faulty, yet should finde respect For what they haue beene: 'tis a cruelty, To load ...

— The First Folio [35 Plays] • William Shakespeare

... and very odious to himself. Had he done his duty properly, he would gently have pushed her from him, have sprung to his legs, and have declared that, however faulty might have been his previous conduct, he now found himself bound to make her understand that he did not intend to become her husband. But he was either too much of a man or too little of a man for conduct such as that. He did make the avowal to himself, even at that ...

— The Way We Live Now • Anthony Trollope

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