faulty English

Meaning faulty meaning

What does faulty mean?

Definitions in simple English

faulty Adjective

— If something is faulty it is not working, or has gone wrong. The car would not start because the battery was faulty.

faulty

— adjective (= incorrect, wrong) characterized by errors; not agreeing with a model or not following established rules; ; ; the wrong side of the road" he submitted a faulty report an incorrect transcription

— adjective (= defective) having a defect I returned the appliance because it was defective

Synonyms faulty synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as faulty?

faulty English » English

defective

wrong

incorrect

imperfect

mistaken

erroneous

inaccurate

flawed

unsound

fallacious

bad

sloppy

misguided

incorrectness

incomplete

deficient

corrupt

careless

broken

wrongness

unwise

unskilful

ungrammatical

spoilt

sinful

rogue

peccant

objectionable

non-acceptable

misconceived

invalid

insufficient

inadequate

inaccuracy

impaired

ill-formed

halting

guilty of an offense

guilty

false

error

erratic

damaged

corrupted

bungling

blemished

be wrong

be at fault

amiss

Examples faulty examples

How do I use faulty in a sentence?

Simple sentences

The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.

This was faulty information.

A cynic is a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.

The car was recalled because of a faulty air bag.

It was determined that faulty wiring was the cause of the fire.

Apparently, the brakes on the bus were faulty.

Movie subtitles

Yeah, faulty business model.

Uh, I'm good, except some of the water bottles, the. the logo is faulty, so we had to send some of them back, but.

A faulty torpedo cost Capt. Perry his life.

Our faulty rudders put us on a reef.

We had a faulty cable.

We can hardly be held responsible if we're given faulty cables.

If these sources tell the truth, and my calculations are not faulty. he now swims the waters off Good Hope. and all the Indian Ocean lies before him.

Probably faulty.

Sounds like faulty identification.

I managed to find a replacement for that faulty filament.

You're rarely heard and your name is never mentioned, but you control this Senate with gold made by providing worthless grain to the people and faulty supplies to the army.

The clasp is faulty and needs hot fires to make it pliable.

Never taken off in one of Arabco's old tubs without something being wrong. This time we've got faulty regulators and a duff radio.

Well, it seems that a faulty connection has given our friend here another chance.

You have a very faulty memory for a spy.

Is it lack of food, is it your sturdy leadership, faulty ammunition, scarcity of shipping, lack of raw materials?

Either your communication system is faulty. or you've overestimated my drawing power.

An incident. Our faulty rudder's put us on a reef.

No. We had a faulty cable.

No. Why? The engine's faulty.

This is a faulty part.

They throw away the faulty one.

Must be a faulty thermostat.

This time we've got faulty regulators and a duff radio.

Possibly the result of faulty digestion.

It must be faulty.

No faulty circuits I can find.

Your data is faulty.

Faulty.

Is the rest of your history that faulty, ensign?

Faulty gauges?

Birds acting strangely. faulty gauges.

News and current affairs

When it comes to economic policy, a fast, faulty decision is often better than inaction.

President George W. Bush may claim that he didn't know that the information he was provided by the CIA concerning weapons of mass destruction in pre-war Iraq was so faulty.

Bush chose the people who provided him with faulty information about Iraq, or at least he chose the heads of the organizations that provided the faulty information.

The boom in the world's housing markets and stock markets between 2003 and 2006 was caused by this faulty idea, and the idea that investments in homes and equities are a sure route to wealth.

Improving global poverty estimates - the World Bank's extend over three decades, beginning in 1981 - requires overcoming three major problems: insufficient survey data, flawed survey execution, and faulty PPP conversions.

Moreover, the patients who receive these faulty diagnoses will usually receive further treatments, which often will have harmful consequences.

CAMBRIDGE - Two years ago, a piece of faulty computer code infected Iran's nuclear program and destroyed many of the centrifuges used to enrich uranium.

If there is a public health question here, it may well be a series of problems rooted in a faulty assumption: the growth of girth and its absolute relationship to ill health.

NEW HAVEN - The widespread failure of economists to forecast the financial crisis that erupted in 2008 has much to do with faulty models.

Scientists are notoriously loath to jettison conclusions reached by approved scientific methods, however faulty.

For several years, some couples at risk of passing a genetic disease on to their children have used in vitro fertilization, producing several embryos that can be tested for the faulty gene and implanting in the woman's uterus only those without it.

The great miscalculation that led to the Afghan invasion was based on a faulty response to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.