adjective
definition
Having or displaying faults; not perfect; not adequate or acceptable.
example
I don't think you can infer that from the premise. It's a faulty argument.
definition
At fault, to blame; guilty.
Examples of faulty in a Sentence
A rigorous demonstration was wanting for many years, Leonhard Euler's proof for negative and fractional values being faulty, and was finally given by Niels Heinrik Abel.
Please enter the thirteen digit serial number of the faulty item.
A true introduction to Colorado mountain winters, the ones you read about in the books and think are the exaggeration of some faulty memory.
Faulty banking ended in a crisis, and 187 9 proved to be the first of sixteen years of almost unbroken depression.
Founded on faulty experiments and reasoning, the views he expressed were either ignored or ridiculed; and it was long before he bitterly regretted the temerity with which he had published his hasty generalizations.
In 1997, a worker was fatally electrocuted as a result of faulty washer equipment.
They seek a specific cause for each accident - driver's error, excessive speed, drunkenness, faulty brakes, bad road surface.
Provided the information received in the voice bank was sufficient to locate the faulty streetlight all faults will be attended to.
Apellicon filled in the lacunae, and brought out a new, but faulty, edition.
Accidents due to simple climbing are, however, exceedingly rare, and are usually found associated with a faulty track, with " plunging " movements of the locomotive or vehicle, or with a " tight gauge " at curves or points.
At first an eight years' cycle was adopted, but it was found to be faulty, then the Jewish cycle of 84 years was used, and remained in force at Rome till the year 457, when a more accurate calculation of a cycle of 532 years, invented by Victorius of Acquitaine, took its place.
The systems of guarantee above described are clearly faulty, since theoretically the railway company which ran no trains at all would, up to the limit of its guarantee, make the largest profits.
From faulty proportions of the same arose the intemperies (" distempers"), which, though not diseases, were the occasions of disease.
Equal importance attached to faulty mixtures or dyscrasiae of the blood.
He and the craftsmen of the school he established completely refute the theory that the anatomical solecisms commonly seen in the works of Japanese sculptors are due to faulty observation.
Moreover, heresies are not to be confounded with tentative and faulty hypotheses broached in a period prior to the scrutiny of a topic of Christian doctrine, and before that scrutiny has led the general mind to an assured conclusion.
Many even of the richer towns, notably Nuremberg, ran into debt irretrievably, owing partly to an exorbitant expenditure on magnificent public buildings and extensive fortifications, calculated to resist modern instruments of destruction, partly to a faulty administration.
In the first place, the impressions of the sense itself are faulty, for the sense both fails us and deceives us.
The shop wants to carry out a repair - What if they are still faulty?
Any items found to be not faulty will be returned to you.
However, the problem may be a faulty motherboard, which makes it a warranty issue.
It has at various times granted divorces, confirmed faulty titles, annulled decisions of the justices of the peace, and validated contracts against which judgment by default had been secured.
If neither of those work, then its a fare bet the drive is probably faulty.
However, due to a faulty reconditioned unit, the rectification process became somewhat muddled.
How can I obtain a refund for faulty goods bought from a Market trader?
Online RMA requests The RMA tool allows partners to submit online return requests for faulty goods.
Then it occurred to me, this is not a faulty CD, that noise is the new single.
But the discipline and moral of the army were shaken and its organization faulty.
A power surge on the Bridge is rapidly and correctly diagnosed as a faulty capacitor by the highly-trained and competent engineering staff.
Zebrafish embryos with a mutation called gridlock show faulty development of blood vessels in the lower portion of the body.
Aside from the exit polls having been proven to be faulty, in the 2000 election exit polls were wrong in 8 states.
On 17 May, a faulty grenade prematurely exploded killing Tom.
Lincs Moto Gear is not obliged to offer a full refund for goods that are not inherently faulty.
If goods are deemed faulty they will either be repaired or replaced.
But the shop has obligations as well if the items prove faulty.
Can become faulty leading to enormous potential data loss!
You should get a 12 month guarantee too in case the wind moves it or the box goes faulty.
Theodore, journeying through all parts, ordained bishops in fitting places, and with their assistance corrected such things as he found faulty.
When a printer prints garbage, it can indicate a faulty cable or a loose connection.
Only people who have the faulty gene are capable of passing it on to their own children.
They found that zeta globin was able to replace the faulty beta globin, in the same way that gamma globin can.
They successfully completed their main objective of removing and replacing a faulty gyroscope on the International Space Station.
Methodological innovations have been added to the officially ' legitimate ' repertoire of poverty assessment tools, yet the diagnosis still looks faulty.
He now turns his fierce intellect exclusively on this subject, denouncing its faulty logic and the suffering it causes.
Faulty or blown capacitors can cause RAM memory corruption and system lockups.
The trouble is caused by the faulty oesophageal sphincter, the muscular ring at the lower end of the esophagus, near the diaphragm.
If the voltage stabilizer is faulty then the fuel gage reading will also be innacurate.
Tracking down the gene The researchers aim to find the faulty gene, or genes, that cause pyloric stenosis.
The latter were profoundly thankful for the very thing which the first group had found faulty.
Both these are common signs of a faulty thermostat.