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faulty

adjective/ˈfɔlti/

What It Means

Having or displaying faults; not perfect; not adequate or acceptable.

At fault, to blame; guilty.

I don't think you can infer that from the premise. It's a faulty argument.

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Faulty in Context

“Her faultie Handmayd, which that bale did breede, / Confest, how Philemon her wrought to chaunge her weede.”

— 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene., London: [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie

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From fault + -y.

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