faulty
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The company denied it was negligent "as alleged or at all" and said Rees' "faulty instructions" led to the accident.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026
Attorneys for plaintiffs in the case say Hochman is vastly overstating the level of fraud and relying on databases with faulty information about who was incarcerated in county custody as a juvenile.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026
The suffering from this faulty reasoning has already begun, as Venezuela, another TPS country, reels from a devastating earthquake the same day as the court’s opinion.
From Slate ● Jun. 25, 2026
Whether the plumber directly caused the problem, failed to identify an underlying issue, or repaired one faulty component only for another to reveal itself, the result is the same: the cistern does not function properly.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 10, 2026
Now the experts hustled to explain their faulty forecasting.
From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt
Or they just don’t like finding out their memories are faultier than they thought.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 7, 2018
There is no commoner, and at the same time faultier, way of reasoning, than that of objecting to a philosophical hypothesis the injury it may do to morals and to religion.
From The Heavenly Father Lectures on Modern Atheism by Downton, Henry
Colburn's First Lessons, the only faultiest school book that we have, has made a great change in the mode of teaching Arithmetic, and is destined to make a still greater.
From Rollo in Holland by Abbott, Jacob
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.
From The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by Dryden, John
In point of construction Othello is the best of his tragedies, Julius C�sar better than King Lear, and Antony and Cleopatra perhaps the faultiest.
From Oxford Lectures on Poetry by Bradley, Andrew Cecil
Vocabulary lists containing faulty
Fake It 'Til You Make It: Synonyms for "False"
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Way Off: Synonyms for "Wrong"
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