adv. [f. FAULTY + -LY2.] In a faulty manner.
1. In a defective manner; defectively, imperfectly, incorrectly.
1577. trans. Bullinger’s Decades (1592), 42/2. Philosophie doth falsly iudge, and faultily teach many thinges touching God, the workes of God, the chiefe goodnesse, the ende of good and euil, and touching thinges to bee desired and eschewed.
1580. Hollyband, Treas. Fr. Tong, Incorrectement, faultily.
1609. Douland, Ornithoparcus, His Micrologus, 69. Many of those Priests … doe reade those things they haue to read so wildly, so monstrously, so faultily, that they doe not only hinder the deuotion of the faithfull, but also euen prouoke them to laughter.
1711. Hearne, Collect. (Oxf. Hist. Soc.), III. 125. The Inscriptions are also most faultily taken.
1888. G. Hamilton, Sunday in Cherokee Land, in N. Amer. Rev., CXLVI., Feb., 198. However faultily preached, however imperfectly understood, these Indians had heard the one Gospel which must save the world—the power of an endless life.
b. = ‘To a fault.’ See FAULT sb. 3 c.
1855. Tennyson, Maud, II. 6. Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null.
2. In a blamable manner; blamably, culpably.
1591. Percivall, Sp. Dict., Criminalmente, faultely.
1661. Boyle, Style of Script. (1675), 221. ’Tis very far from being agreeable to experience, that the Style of the Scripture does make it Unoperative upon the Generality of its Readers, if they be not Faultily indispos’d to receive impressions from it.
1768–74. Tucker, Lt. Nat. (1852), II. 590. A man may be faultily scrupulous, as well as laudably conscientious: but who can distinguish precisely in all cases between trifles, and matters of consequence to the public, which no rules of civillity, custom, or private obligation ought ever to supersede?
1773. Mrs. Chapone, Improv. Mind (1774), I. 186. Whenever therefore such infidelity of heart is made a subject of confidence, depend upon it the corruption has spread far, and has been faultily indulged.
