Synonyms for faulty
ˈfɔl tifault·y

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1. faultyadjective

   Antonyms:
   faultless

2. faultyadjective

   Antonyms:
   faultless

3. faultyadjective

   Antonyms:
   faultless

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1. faulty

   Synonyms:
   bad, blemished, corrupt, corrupted, defaced, defective, deficient, deformed, fallible, imperfect, incomplete, inferior, insufficient, marred, meager, perverted, poor, ruined, scant, short, spoiled, worthless

   Antonyms:
   absolute, accurate, blameless, complete, completed, consummate, correct, entire, faultless, finished, holy, ideal, immaculate, perfect, sinless, spotless, stainless, unblemished, undefiled

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1. defective, faultyadjective

   having a defect

   "I returned the appliance because it was defective"

   Synonyms:
   incorrect, defective, wrong, bad

   Antonyms:
   perfect, accurate

2. faulty, incorrect, wrongadjective

   characterized by errors; not agreeing with a model or not following established rules

   "he submitted a faulty report"; "an incorrect transcription"; the wrong side of the road"

   Synonyms:
   unseasonable, untimely, defective, awry(p), incorrect, improper, haywire, ill-timed, wrong(p), wrong, amiss(p)

   Antonyms:
   perfect, accurate

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1. faultyadjective

   Synonyms:
   bad, defective, imperfect

2. faultyadjective

   Synonyms:
   blamable, culpable, censurable, reprehensible, blameworthy, worthy of censure

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1. faultyadjective

   Synonyms:
   imperfect, defective, blamable, culpable, peccable, erring

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1. List of paraphrases for "faulty":

   defective, flawed, poor, malfunctioning, erroneous, bad, incorrect, wrong, failed

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1. Mercedes Carnethon:

   What a nightmare, the strategy of using a mail-in test during a busy time of year for the Postal Service, and when weather delays happen, was a faulty strategy from the start. And there was a large risk of what we saw happen today, which is that many children returned to the classrooms and we don’t know their status.

2. Alex Azar:

   We will be allocating them based on the pace of administration as reported by states and by the size of the 65 and over population in each state, we're giving states two weeks' notice of this shift to give them the time necessary to plan and to improve their reporting if they think their data is faulty.

3. Kristi Noem:

   Under the guise of academic research, this report is nothing short of an attack on those who exercised their personal freedom to attend Sturgis, predictably, some in the media breathlessly report on this non-peer reviewed model, built on incredibly faulty assumptions that do not reflect the actual facts and data.

4. James Lankford:

   I would be disappointed if we don't allow states to make a decision just based on what the Roe decision was in 1973. It was… such a faulty foundation in its own judicial argument and it created out of whole cloth this viability standard, which was completely arbitrary.

5. Ed Patru:

   If you accept the faulty premise that political contributions create a conflict of interest, then any amount is problematic, i don’t remember a single Democrat, citing conflicts of interest, recusing themselves from a vote on billionaires like Penny Pritzker.