faulty
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According to residents, the parade's authorisation was based on faulty police intelligence that the march would not meet any resistance.
From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026
Recorded just before transmission on Saturday nights, it was initially a consumer protection programme investigating viewers' complaints about shoddy service and faulty goods.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
SpaceX on Monday launched Starship for the first time since July and, despite a faulty engine, managed to put the rocket in orbit for the first time as well.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026
The 33-year-old’s rounds include sniffing for burning equipment that could indicate overheating, feeling tubes for cracks and looking for faulty lighting or broken power transformers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
Boo Boo blew a single, faulty smoke-ring at a pane of glass.
From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger
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 Henry Downton
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 John Dryden
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 Jacob Abbott
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