faulty
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈfɔːlti/
faulty (comparative faultier, superlative faultiest)
- Having or displaying faults; not perfect; not adequate or acceptable.
- They replaced the faulty wiring and it has worked fine ever since.
- I don't think you can infer that from the premise. It's a faulty argument.
- (obsolete) At fault, to blame; guilty.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.iv:
- Her faultie Handmayd, which that bale did breede, / Confest, how Philemon her wrought to chaunge her weede.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.iv:
- French: défectueux
- German: fehlerhaft
- Italian: difettoso, imperfetto, scorretto
- Russian: неиспра́вный
- Spanish: defectuoso, imperfecto
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