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- adjective
superlative form offaulty : mostfaulty .
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Examples
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But some of them have fallen by the way, and those not the faultiest or coarsest, but some of fine instinct and graceful charm, who evoked one's best hopes and most affectionate concern.
Paul the Minstrel and Other Stories Reprinted from The Hill of Trouble and The Isles of Sunset Arthur Christopher Benson 1893
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Having proved him thus to be, in fact, about the faultiest, loosest, teacher, in a matter of mere fact, that ever undertook to lead the world, they acquiesce in him perfectly; their reverence is complete!
The Vicarious Sacrifice, Grounded in Principles of Universal Obligation. 1802-1876 1871
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But he knew something of the tares only; he knew nothing of the wheat among the tares; knew nothing of the wintry gleams of comfort shed on thousands of hearts by the most poverty-stricken belief in the merest and faultiest silhouette of a God.
There & Back George MacDonald 1864
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Here he says: 'Truth is the first Quality, and, as it were, the foundation of Thought; the fairest is the faultiest, or, rather, those which pass for the fairest, are not really so, if they want this Foundation ...
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Thought; the fairest is the faultiest, or, rather, those which pass for the fairest, are not really so, if they want this Foundation ...
The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays Joseph Addison 1695
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His next poem was "Annus Mirabilis," published in 1667, and counted justly one of his most vigorous, though also one of the faultiest of his poems.
The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes John Dryden 1665
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Leahy told some whoppers too and Teddy, but Tribe’s recall of Bork’s history was the faultiest and he had the most to gain (or lose) and helost.
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Leahy told some whoppers too and Teddy, but Tribe’s recall of Bork’s history was the faultiest and he had the most to gain (or lose) and helost.
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Leahy told some whoppers too and Teddy, but Tribe’s recall of Bork’s history was the faultiest and he had the most to gain (or lose) and helost.
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Leahy told some whoppers too and Teddy, but Tribe’s recall of Bork’s history was the faultiest and he had the most to gain or lose and helost.
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