faulty Copy link Outline 1. mendōsus (full of or having defects, blemishes)2. vĭtiōsus (with flaws; unsound) • faulty: 1. mendōsus (full of or having defects, blemishes): f. manners, m. mores, Ov.: a f. copy of a will, m. exemplar testamenti, Plin. Ep. 10, 23 (75): a character f. in a few respects but in the main good, vitiis paucis mendosa natura, alioqui recta, Hor. S. 1, 6, 66. 2. vĭtiōsus (with flaws; unsound): a most f. orator, orator vitiosissimus, Cic. de Or. 3, 26, 103: a consul created by a f. process, v. consul, Cic.: v. informal.