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faulty (adjective), more faulty, most faulty
1. Containing a defect or being imperfect: The faulty spelling in the otherwise outstanding essay resulted in a lower grade for the student.
2. Having problems; especially, those that cause malfunctions: The faulty wiring in the old house resulted in the fuses frequently burning and needing to be replaced.
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(Latin: burere, "to burn up"; from urere, with an inserted or faulty separation of b in amburere, "to burn around"; which stands for amb-urere, "to burn around", but it was misdivided into am-burere and because of this misdivision, the new verb burere was formed with the past participle bustum; so, it really came from urere, "to burn, to singe")