English-Portuguese translations for faulty

• defeituoso
  É demasiado grande o número de pessoas, sobretudo jovens, vítimas de queimaduras e escoriações causadas por artigos de pirotecnia defeituosos ou por uma incorrecta manipulação dos mesmos. Far too many people (particularly young people) suffer burns and scars because of faulty fireworks or mishandling.
  Como o nosso colega já referiu, é urgente procedermos a uma investigação das denúncias que referem que 15 000 juntas já montadas possuem um revestimento defeituoso susceptível de provocar fugas.As our colleague has already made clear, as a matter of urgency we need immediate investigation into claims that 15 000 joints already laid contain a faulty coating that would lead to seepage.

Definition of faulty

• Having or displaying faults; not perfect; not adequate or acceptable
• At fault, to blame; guilty

Examples

• They replaced the faulty wiring and it has worked fine ever since.
• I dont think you can infer that from the premise. Its a faulty argument.

Related words

• fault
• default
• defaulter
• faultiness
• defaulting
• faultless
• faultlessly
• faultlessness
• faultfinder