faultily
English
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Adverb
[edit]faultily (comparative more faultily, superlative most faultily)
- In a faulty manner.
- 1915 December 4 – 1916 January 8, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Son of Tarzan, Chicago, Ill.: A[lexander] C[aldwell] McClurg & Co., published March 1917, →OCLC:
- For all his inherited size and strength he was, after all, only a little boy—a frightened, homesick little boy—reasoning faultily from the meager experience of childhood.
- 1936 May 17, “Even Husbands Will Approve If You Really Study Make-Up”, in Sunday Dispatch, 135th year, number 7,020, page 21:
- REALISE what make-up suggests to him when he sees streetsful and officesful of faultily, harsh-looking, made-up faces.
- 2011 September 16, “Birth control pills recalled due to ‘packaging error’”, in CNN[1], archived from the original on 19 April 2021:
- Qualitest urged those with such products to begin using a “non-hormonal” form of birth control and consult a health care provider or pharmacist. Pharmacies have been told to contact those who have gotten the faultily packaged pills.