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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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... second piece addressed to Mrs. Shew, and written in 1848, was also first published, but in a somewhat faulty form, in the above named ...

— Edgar Allan Poe's Complete Poetical Works • Edgar Allan Poe

... insufficiently rested child that most readily develops physical deformity. The fatigued nervous system is expressed in general bodily slackness. There is deficient muscular and ligamentous tone. The typical faulty posture is thus acquired, with drooping head, flat chest, wing shoulders, prominent abdomen. Vitality is depressed and the bodily mechanism out of gear. The grosser bony deformities so often found in older lands associated with ...

— Mental Defectives and Sexual Offenders • W. H. Triggs, Donald McGavin, Frederick Truby King, J. Sands Elliot, Ada G. Patterson, C.E. Matthews

... Instances of faulty syllabic accent abound in Handel's works, both his English oratorios and his Italian operas. Many examples could be quoted. Here is a phrase from the beautiful air for mezzo-soprano sung by Ruggiero in the ...

— Style in Singing • W. E. Haslam

... of color in canned beets is due to faulty methods of preparation before packing them into the jars. To secure good results 3 or 4 inches of the top and all of the tail should be left on while blanching. Beets should be blanched for five minutes and the skin ...

— Every Step in Canning • Grace Viall Gray

... awe-struck as the picture formed rapidly before their eyes and hung inverted in the brassy sky just above the horizon foreshortened by the sweep of a low, snow-buried ridge. Both had seen mirages before—mirages that, like a faulty glass, distorted shapes and outlines, and mirages that brought real and recognizable places into view like the one they were staring at in spell-bound fascination. So perfect in detail, and so close it hung in the heavy, dead air that it seemed as though they could reach out ...

— Connie Morgan in the Fur Country • James B. Hendryx

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