faulty
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
faulty
adj 1: having a defect; "I returned the appliance because it was
defective" [syn: {defective}, {faulty}]
2: 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"
[syn: {faulty}, {incorrect}, {wrong}]
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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
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