FAULT'Y, adjective 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 1 Samuel 14:1. 3. Wrong; erroneous; as a faulty polity. 4. Defective; imperfect; bad; as a faulty helmet.
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