Definition for FAULT'Y

FAULT'Y, a.

  1. Containing faults, blemishes or defects; defective; imperfect; as, a faulty composition or book; a faulty plan or design; a faulty picture.
  2. Guilty of a fault or of faults: hence, blamable; worthy of censure. The king doth speak this thing as one who is faulty. 2 Sam. xiv.
  3. Wrong; erroneous; as, a faulty polity. Hooker.
  4. Defective; imperfect; bad; as, a faulty helmet. Bacon.

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