faultily

Adverb

faultily (comparative more faultily, superlative most faultily)

1. In a faulty manner.
   • 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
   • 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