Faulty \Fault"y\, a.
1. Containing faults, blemishes, or defects; imperfect; not
fit for the use intended.
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So goodly and erect, though faulty since. --Milton.
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2. Guilty of a fault, or of faults; hence, blamable; worthy
of censure. --Shak.
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The king doth speak . . . as one which is faulty.
--2 Sam. xiv.
13.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
faulty
adj 1: characterized by errors; "he submitted a faulty report"
2: having a defect; "I returned the appliance because it was
defective" [syn: defective]
[also: faultiest, faultier]
WordNet (r) 2.0
153 Moby Thesaurus words for "faulty":
aberrant, abroad, absonant, adrift, adulterated, all abroad,
all off, all wrong, amiss, arraignable, askew, astray, at fault,
awry, bad, barbarous, beside the mark, blemished, broken, careless,
censurable, checked, cicatrized, contradictory, contrary to reason,
corrupt, cracked, crazed, criminal, culpable, damaged, deceptive,
defaced, defective, deficient, deformed, delusive, deviant,
deviational, deviative, disfigured, distorted, errant, erring,
erroneous, fallacious, fallible, false, faultful, flawed,
found wanting, guilty, heretical, heterodox, illogical, illusory,
immature, impaired, impeachable, imperfect, implicated, imprecise,
improper, impure, inaccurate, inadequate, inauthentic, incomplete,
inconclusive, incongruous, inconsequent, inconsequential,
inconsistent, incorrect, inculpated, indictable, inexact,
infelicitous, invalid, involved, irrational, keloidal, kinked,
lacking, loose, makeshift, malfunctioning, marred, mediocre, mixed,
nonscientific, not following, not perfect, not right, not true,
off, off the track, on the blink, on the fritz, out, out of order,
paralogical, partial, patchy, peccant, perverse, perverted,
pimpled, pimply, reasonless, reprehensible, reproachable,
reprovable, scabbed, scabby, scarified, scarred, self-annulling,
self-contradictory, self-refuting, senseless, short, sick, sketchy,
slipshod, slovenly, solecistic, specious, split, straying,
to blame, twisted, unauthentic, unconnected, undeveloped, uneven,
unfactual, unfinished, ungrammatic, unorthodox, unperfected,
unphilosophical, unproved, unreasonable, unscientific, unsound,
unthorough, untrue, wanting, warped, wide, without reason, wrong
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
faulty adj. Non-functional; buggy. Same denotation as bletcherous,
losing, q.v., but the connotation is much milder.
Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001)
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