faulty
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3.5
- adjective
- /ˈfɔlti/
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erróneo
- Unfortunately, our golfer might conclude that the cause is a faulty grip on her club.
- faulty reasoning
- based on faulty assumptions
- faulty assumptions
So your first fact is based on a second underlying faulty fact, which makes you wrong.
- So your first fact is based on a second underlying faulty fact, which makes you wrong.
- Why does our brain have these faulty habits that make us so susceptible to lies?
- And there are many, many, many, many faulty assumptions.
- I mean people made a career on works which were mathematically faulty.
- Now in some areas we would say the math is faulty or has to be corrected and things like that.
- But we still have the pool and we did have a gate then, but it was a gate that was faulty and hadn't been fixed.
- And if we realize that our story is faulty, that we're making stuff up, that's literally not helping us.
- It was it was retracted within weeks as faulty science but nevertheless that stuck.
- Everybody is walking through this lifetime making faulty actions.
- Like we, we've just made faulty videos in a row.
- Like most things that Elon does, this is style over substance and faulty as hell.
- That's an ego based faulty decision.
Examples
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Your major premise was based on a faulty assumption.
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You tend to have a faulty memory where money's concerned.
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But when you make that decision, do not make that decision based on faulty information.
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Your memory is faulty , sir.
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So these are two boxes full of faulty customer returned items.
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You ought to do something about that faulty memory of yours, pal.
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Not fraud, but a faulty program.
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In other instances, students with faulty written language do not monitor their work.
Academic text (1993) -
We've had too much experience with witnesses with very, very faulty memory.
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The company had to recall the product due to faulty design, which had caused several accidents.
Synonyms
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1.0
Not working correctly
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1.0
Not working properly or in poor condition
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3.7
Not perfect because of a mistake or problem
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6.1
Not working properly or doing its job
73
3.5
Having faults or missing parts that make it less good
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4.1
Not able to be trusted to work or be right
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3.9
Having a fault that makes something not work properly
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3.9
Having many small errors or problems in a program
Not working properly so a machine or system cannot work as it should
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Etymology
Faulty comes from the word fault (old French faute) meaning 'error', and the ending -y means 'having' or 'full of'. So faulty means 'having an error', which is why we describe ideas or arguments as 'faulty' when they contain mistakes.