faultily, adv.
(ˈfɔːlt-, ˈfɒltɪlɪ)
[f. faulty + -ly2.]
In a faulty manner.
1. In a defective manner; defectively, imperfectly, incorrectly.
| 1577 tr. Bullinger's Decades (1592) 42 Philosophie doth..faultily teach many thinges touching God. 1580 Hollyband Treas. Fr. Tong, Incorrectement, faultily. 1609 Douland 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.]. 1711 Hearne Collect. (Oxf. Hist. Soc.) III. 125 The Inscriptions are also most faultily taken. 1888 N. 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.
| 1855 Tennyson Maud ii. 6 Faultily faultless. |
2. In a blamable manner; blamably, culpably.
| 1591 Percivall Sp. Dict., Criminalmente, faultely. 1661 Boyle Style of Script. (1675) 221 If they be not faultily indisposed to receive impressions from it. 1768–74 Tucker Lt. Nat. (1852) II. 590 A man may be faultily scrupulous, as well as laudably conscientious. 1773 Mrs. Chapone Improv. Mind (1774) I. 186 Depend upon it the corruption has..been faultily indulged. |