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  • adjective comparative form of faulty: more faulty

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Examples

  • Yet scarcely any reference, or referee, were faultier.

    "Marse Henry" : an autobiography, 1921

  • If it be interesting to trace the evolution of an animal from its rudimentary germ through the lower phases to the perfect organism, it is almost as interesting to follow an invention from the original model through the faultier types to the finished apparatus.

    Heroes of the Telegraph John Munro 1889

  • Kyd has left nothing, and Peele little, but drama; while beautiful as Marlowe's _Hero and Leander_ is, I do not quite understand how any one can prefer it to the faultier but far more original dramas of its author.

    A History of Elizabethan Literature George Saintsbury 1889

  • Yet scarcely any reference, or referee, were faultier.

    Marse Henry (Volume 2) An Autobiography Henry Watterson 1880

  • Yet scarcely any reference, or referee, were faultier.

    Marse Henry, Complete An Autobiography Henry Watterson 1880

  • And if it is so with such persons, how much more with the less religious, who, the faultier they are, have generally a more vivid spirit of self-defence!

    Sermons. Volume The Fourth. 1808-1892 1850

  • It is so interwoven with the highest qualities, that I sometimes dread injury to them could it be torn away from the faultier ones which it supports.

    The Parisians — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • It is so interwoven with the highest qualities, that I sometimes dread injury to them could it be torn away from the faultier ones which it supports.

    The Parisians — Volume 09 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • Introduced in October 2009 alongside a bigger, yet faultier, 27-inch model, the 21. 5-inch iMac sports a stunning,

    Softpedia - Windows - All Filip Truta 2010

  • And knowing that Mary’s intonation was but faulty, that of the nursery faultier still, Mahony here put in his single spoke in Cuffy’s education.

    The Way Home 2003

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