What is "faulty"

Usage examples of "faulty".

The courtier checked over the ornate clasp holding together the medley of chatelettes: the scissors, the manicure set, bodkin, spoon, vinaigrette, needle-case, the looking-glass and spike-leaf strainer, the faulty timepiece, the workbox, the portrait and tilhals, the anlace, penknife, snuff-box, and pencil.

We have endeavoured rather to give what will be of use to the assayer than to cover the ground within the limits of a faulty definition.

Sugar considers tickling Caddie with a description of her faulty grammar made flesh: a procession of earnest moustachioed policemen, pretty skirts frou-frouing under their sombre overcoats.

But how could he possibly have supposed himself faulty in anything when everyone around him repeated constantly that he was the best of kings?

The gravedigger had been steeling himself for a dull afternoon of ten Woodbines, five cups of tea and a solo darts tournament, but a faulty freezer in the cemetery store-cum-restroom, and fate, had brought entertainment in the shape of the young electrician who was, realized the gravedigger, as green as he was cabbage-looking.

So to do, I must dwell upon the sentiments of a heart, which is human, and therefore faulty, but which has neither guile nor malice in it.

During the first fortnight of my stay in Paris, it seemed to me that I had become the most faulty man alive, for I never ceased begging pardon.

He had just finished attaching a new set of attenuators to a faulty motherboard when his cellular phone sprang to life.

Walker-on-Earth approached me to inform me that I had been given a faulty noser, the result of the using of which would have cost my wife and I our lives.

So I ask you again, when the owner of that defective car gets into it and drives over Gough or Franklin streets, knowing those streets are extremely unsafe for cars with faulty brakes, and then injures or kills someone when the brakes do fail, do you advocate that the driver not be held accountable for his reckless, despicably antisocial behavior?

Every hour of school labor illustrates the value of apperception and teachers should find in it a constant antidote to faulty methods.

Between them, they had made it look to the press as if Edwards had personally sunk the Barracuda, either because he had designed faulty equipment or from more sinister motives.

This similitude, likening the universe to a clock, and God to a horologist, is faulty.

General Abunnasr Manesh watched the technicians remove the faulty electronic modules from his Mig-29 and replace them with brand new spare parts.

After two or three days on a no- or low-carb diet, pyruvic acid from faulty fat metabolism builds up very slowly in your muscles.