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faultily en · ADV

Etymology

Etymology tree English faulty Middle English -ly English -ly English faultily From faulty + -ly.

Meanings

1. In a faulty manner.
   • REALISE what make-up suggests to him when he sees streetsful and officesful of faultily, harsh-looking, made-up faces. 1936 May 17, “Even Husbands Will Approve If You Really Study Make-Up”, in Sunday Dispatch, 135th year, number 7,020, page 21:
   • 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. 2011 September 16, “Birth control pills recalled due to ‘packaging error’”, in CNN, archived from the original on 19 Apr 2021:
   • 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. 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:

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