faultier; faultiest
Examples of faulty in a Sentence
the cause of the plane crash was traced to faulty wiring
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Issuing a faulty boarding pass and leaving you stranded in Toronto is a clear breach of that obligation.
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Christopher Elliott, Mercury News, 25 Oct. 2025
Conceptions of world geography at the time were faulty to an almost absurd extent, Bergreen said.
—Lee Habeeb, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025
Dati also insisted that security at the museum was not faulty.
—Jamie Gray, NBC news, 22 Oct. 2025
Past outages on this scale have been caused by a wide variety of errors, including faulty updates, the accidental injection of bad code, or a change to third-party software that doesn’t play nicely with a service.
—Alexandra Banner, CNN Money, 21 Oct. 2025
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Christopher Elliott, Mercury News, 25 Oct. 2025
Conceptions of world geography at the time were faulty to an almost absurd extent, Bergreen said.
—Lee Habeeb, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025
Dati also insisted that security at the museum was not faulty.
—Jamie Gray, NBC news, 22 Oct. 2025
Past outages on this scale have been caused by a wide variety of errors, including faulty updates, the accidental injection of bad code, or a change to third-party software that doesn’t play nicely with a service.
—Alexandra Banner, CNN Money, 21 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for faulty
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“Faulty.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/faulty. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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