Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Containing a fault or defect; imperfect or defective.
- adj. Obsolete Deserving of blame; guilty.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Containing faults, errors, blemishes, or defects; defective; imperfect: as, a faulty composition; a faulty plan or design.
- Guilty of a fault or of faults; hence, to be blamed; deserving of or provoking censure.
- Synonyms Incomplete. Culpable, reprehensible, censurable, blameworthy.
Wiktionary
- adj. Having or displaying faults; not perfect; not adequate or acceptable.
- adj. obsolete At fault, to blame; guilty.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Containing faults, blemishes, or defects; imperfect; not fit for the use intended.
- adj. Guilty of a fault, or of faults; hence, blamable; worthy of censure.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. characterized by errors; not agreeing with a model or not following established rules
- adj. having a defect
Etymologies
- fault + -y (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Maybe the toughest thing to hear in all of this, officials believe both the pilot and air controllers made what they called faulty decisions.”
“SAN DIEGO -- Toyota dealers around San Diego County have started fixing what they call faulty gas pedals, but some drivers are wondering whether the real problem is being addressed.”
“A family of four that lived in the flat above the students was also poisoned and taken to a hospital for treatment and are pursuing legal action against the utility company for what they called a faulty gas line setup.”
“Pakistan to move international court against Kashmir hydro project ISLAMABAD - Pakistan is to move the International Court of Arbitration against India's diversion of the Jhelum river to the Wullar Barrage and what it terms the faulty design of the Kishanganga hydropower project in Jammu and Kashmir.”
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“April 30th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan is examining various options, including the appointment of an arbitrator by the World Bank, against India's diversion of the Jhelum river to the Wullar Barrage and what it terms the faulty design of the Kishanganga hydropower project in Jammu and Kashmir, the foreign office said Thursday.”
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“The grand jury indictment said Farr first deposited $13,475 in faulty checks in Aug. 14, 2006, and withdrew $14,529 before the credit union realized the deposits were drawn on closed accounts.”
“Why has some chap going to the effort of making, practically overnight, a website which, as of this writing is mainly a a slide presentation calling Bhagat a liar and enumerating, in faulty English, the scenes in the film which aren't from the book?”
“Torture that only results in faulty information, when the torturees are just willing to anythig to make it stop.”
“Diabetes complications rooted in faulty cell repair”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘faulty’.
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CULI - wine-tasting adjectives
In this area of expertise nouns are frequently used as adjectives (almond, bacon, cider, diesel, fennel, fresh-cut hay, wool) or new adjectives are formed (appley, berrylike, citrusy, full-bodied, ...
acetic, acidic, aged, angular, appley, astringent, attractive, austere, berrylike, big, bitter, brawny and 511 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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funny & derogatory
WARNING: VERY EXPLICIT. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.
funny derogatory names, quotes, phrases.
( open list, randomness, ad hom, ad hominem )
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buttfucking quitter, dirty sanchez, donkey punch, falcon punch, assbadger, unicorn turd, assclown, fudgenut, quackery, friggin homo, buttmuncher, jackwagon and 278 more... -
big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6691 more...
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kevinl's Words
indefatigable, dabble, befuddle, fin, infinity, might, futile, squirm, bookish, feint, liquidity, belt and 126 more...
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You Broke It!
After the school bully breaks your new yo-yo, you can use these words to describe it. All hail the carnage!
broken, faulty, slipshod, weak, destroyed, dismantled, busted, cracked, chipped, bent, shattered, irreparable and 147 more...
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words that begin with f
finish, first, food, fatal, fierce, fallow, faith, fiddly, fist, fire, find, fling and 51 more...
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words that depress me
gloom, dreary, dire, pathetic, squalor, listless, dour, sigh, resignation, quagmire, stagnation, blanch and 14 more...
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