Faulty vs Scandalous - What's the difference?
faulty | scandalous | Related terms |
Having or displaying faults; not perfect; not adequate or acceptable.
(obsolete) At fault, to blame; guilty.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.iv:
wrong, immoral, causing a scandal
* 1884, Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
malicious, defamatory
* 1592, Thomas Kyd, The Spanish Tragedie
* 1887, Marie Corelli, Thelma
*{{quote-news
, year=2012
, date=June 26
, author=Genevieve Koski
, title=Music: Reviews: Justin Bieber: Believe
, work=The Onion AV Club
As adjectives the difference between faulty and scandalous
is that faulty is having or displaying faults; not perfect; not adequate or acceptable while scandalous is wrong, immoral, causing a scandal.faulty
English
Adjective
(er)- They replaced the faulty wiring and it has worked fine ever since.
- I don't think you can infer that from the premise. It's a faulty argument.
- Her faultie Handmayd, which that bale did breede, / Confest, how Philemon her wrought to chaunge her weede.
Usage notes
* Nouns to which "faulty" is often applied: goods, equipment, product, wiring, construction, memory, thinking, design, hardware, software, unit, part, component, assumption, reasoning, premise, gene, operation, technique, merchandise, circuit, code, analysis, posture, machine, method, habit, process, communication.Antonyms
* faultlessDerived terms
* faultinessscandalous
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The thing made a big stir in the town, too, and a good many come out flatfooted and said it was scandalous to separate the mother and the children that way.
- These be the scandalous reports of such / As loves not me, and hate my lord too much.
- I always disregard gossip--it is generally scandalous , and seldom true.
citation, page= , passage=The closest Believe gets to scandalous is on the deluxe-edition bonus track “Maria,” a response song to the woman who accused Bieber of fathering her child in 2011.}}