as in defective
having a fault
the cause of the plane crash was traced to faulty wiring
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Recent Examples of faulty
The deficits were worsened by faulty estimates of how much the Medi-Cal expansion would cost.
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Dan Walters, Mercury News, 27 Mar. 2026
Mexico's government has said that the official registry of disappeared is an overcount, often marred by faulty data from local prosecutor's offices and cases of people being reported missing two or three times.
—ABC News, 27 Mar. 2026
Tinoco’s office said the Riverside group relied on faulty data to reach its conclusion of voting irregularities.
—Lia Russell, Sacbee.com, 26 Mar. 2026
Wintrow said ProPublica’s reporting raised awareness of the harms done by a faulty system for death investigations.
—Audrey Dutton, ProPublica, 24 Mar. 2026
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Dan Walters, Mercury News, 27 Mar. 2026
Mexico's government has said that the official registry of disappeared is an overcount, often marred by faulty data from local prosecutor's offices and cases of people being reported missing two or three times.
—ABC News, 27 Mar. 2026
Tinoco’s office said the Riverside group relied on faulty data to reach its conclusion of voting irregularities.
—Lia Russell, Sacbee.com, 26 Mar. 2026
Wintrow said ProPublica’s reporting raised awareness of the harms done by a faulty system for death investigations.
—Audrey Dutton, ProPublica, 24 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for faulty
defective
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And a cohort of American consumers, siding with the plaintiff, determined that the platforms are defective products, distributed to the public without proper safeguards or warnings about their potential harms.—
Maggie Harrison Dupré,
Futurism,
26 Mar. 2026
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Her lawyers argued that the apps should be seen as defective products that contributed to Kaley's mental health struggles.—
Brittney Melton,
NPR,
26 Mar. 2026
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“Faulty.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/faulty. Accessed 4 Apr. 2026.
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