Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a faulty manner; defectively; imperfectly; wrongly.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a faulty manner.
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- adverb In a
faulty manner
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in an inaccurate manner
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Examples
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In fault, the duty is not to harm faultily, that is, negligently, recklessly or intentionally.
Theories of Tort Law Coleman, Jules 2003
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The meme our illustrious interlocutor is faultily remembering is “information wants to be free.”
Bits Debate: Responding to Readers on Filtering - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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But they didn't seem to know the difference as each one wracked his faultily wired memory box for a trace of recollection.
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Such behavior is highly unbecoming in a computer, even a faultily programmed one.
Lawnmower Season 2010
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But they didn't seem to know the difference as each one wracked his faultily wired memory box for a trace of recollection.
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Used as designed, or mis-used; well or faultily designed.
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Although there is no record of in-person voter impersonation while real problems of voter registration fraud and absentee ballot fraud remain unresolved by voter ID requirements, supporters of the state law still faultily argue it is necessary to prevent voter fraud by citing a newspaper report on the state's voter registration rolls being swollen with 300 dead people in 2000, according to Dennis Powell of ABC News.
Voter Suppression Battles Likely to Resume At The State Level 2008
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THank GOD that these days the GDP is being driven by more solid investments like bombs, and paying truck drivers 200,000 $ year to haul materials to faultily repair the stuff the bombs blew up, etc etc.
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And how would a creature, educated as I have been, have behaved under such trials as might have arisen from a knowledge so faultily obtained?
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Will he take from me the mistressly management, which I had not faultily discharged?
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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