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faultily, adv.|ˈfɔːlt-, ˈfɒltɪlɪ|
[f. faulty + -ly2.]
In a faulty manner.
1. In a defective manner; defectively, imperfectly, incorrectly.
1577tr. Bullinger's Decades (1592) 42 Philosophie doth..faultily teach many thinges touching God. 1580Hollyband Treas. Fr. Tong, Incorrectement, faultily. 1609Douland Ornith. Microl. 69 Many of those Priests..does read those things..so faultily, that they doe not only hinder the deuotion of the faithfull, but also [etc.]. 1711Hearne Collect. (Oxf. Hist. Soc.) III. 125 The Inscriptions are also most faultily taken. 1888N. Amer. Rev. Feb. 198 However faultily preached..these Indians had heard the one Gospel which must save the world.
b. = ‘To a fault.’ See fault n. 3 c.
1855Tennyson Maud ii. 6 Faultily faultless.
2. In a blamable manner; blamably, culpably.
1591Percivall Sp. Dict., Criminalmente, faultely. 1661Boyle Style of Script. (1675) 221 If they be not faultily indisposed to receive impressions from it. 1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1852) II. 590 A man may be faultily scrupulous, as well as laudably conscientious. 1773Mrs. Chapone Improv. Mind (1774) I. 186 Depend upon it the corruption has..been faultily indulged. |