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| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : fey-ling |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈfeɪ lɪŋ |
Definition of failings
Origin :- "defect, fault," 1580s, verbal noun from fail (v.).
- noun lapse, shortcoming
- Whatever other failings might be his, there was no great cowardice in Hank Rainer.
- Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand
- There are some who seem unconscious of their own failings, and for these there is hope.
- Extract from : « Roden's Corner » by Henry Seton Merriman
- Our relation was not exempted from the failings of young men.
- Extract from : « Vivian Grey » by Earl of Beaconsfield, Benjamin Disraeli
- She had not one of the failings which usually accompany that position.
- Extract from : « Memoirs Of The Court Of Marie Antoinette, Queen Of France, Complete » by Madame Campan
- Those who come to grief do so from their own failings and deficiencies.
- Extract from : « Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2) » by William Delisle Hay
- His clothes were neither modest nor retiring and he, himself, did not suffer from these failings.
- Extract from : « Mary-'Gusta » by Joseph C. Lincoln
- These dicta are all tried and true, but they have the failings common to platitudes.
- Extract from : « College Teaching » by Paul Klapper
- How right I was in my guess that small animosities were amongst your failings!
- Extract from : « The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. I (of II) » by Charles James Lever
- Surya keeps his eye on men and reports their failings to Varuna and Mitra.
- Extract from : « History of Religion » by Allan Menzies
- And now you'll have to try to be fond of me too, for her sake, Charley, and overlook my failings.
- Extract from : « The Forbidden Trail » by Honor Willsie
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