Synonyms for faults
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : fawlt |
| Phonetic Transcription : fɔlt |
Top 10 synonyms for faults Other synonyms for the word faults
- accountability
- answerability
- blemish
- culpability
- debility
- delinquency
- demerit
- dereliction
- evil doing
- foible
- frailty
- impropriety
- inaccuracy
- infirmity
- lack
- lapse
- liability
- loss of innocence
- malfeasance
- malpractice
- misconduct
- miscue
- misdeed
- misdemeanor
- negligence
- offense
- omission
- onus
- oversight
- peccancy
- pimple
- responsibility
- shortcoming
- slip
- slip-up
- solecism
- transgression
- trespass
- vice
- weak point
- weakness
- wrong
- wrongdoing
- zit
Définition of faults
Origin :- late 13c., faute, "deficiency," from Old French faute (12c.) "opening, gap; failure, flaw, blemish; lack, deficiency," from Vulgar Latin *fallita "a shortcoming, falling," noun use of fem. past participle, from Latin falsus "deceptive, feigned, spurious," past participle of fallere "deceive, disappoint" (see fail).
- The -l- was restored 16c., probably in imitation of Latin, but was not pronounced till 18c. Sense of "physical defect" is from early 14c.; that of "moral culpability" is first recorded late 14c. Geological sense is from 1796. The use in tennis (c.1600) is closer to the etymological sense.
- noun blame, sin; mistake
- noun physical defect
- Ill-considered remedies for our faults bring only penalties after them.
- Extract from : « United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches » by Various
- Casting from us our own faults first, let us cast from us and from him our neighbor's also.
- Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
- The firm who sold it to me agreed that it should have none of the faults of the old one.
- Extract from : « Scientific American Supplement, No. 433, April 19, 1884 » by Various
- He seems often to have realized the faults of his own haste.
- Extract from : « The Man Shakespeare » by Frank Harris
- I have no enmity to these ladies; I only despise them, or rather, their follies and their faults.
- Extract from : « Tales And Novels, Volume 4 (of 10) » by Maria Edgeworth
- And finds sights of faults with things wherever she is, sights of it.
- Extract from : « Samantha Among the Brethren, Part 3. » by Josiah Allen's Wife (Marietta Holley)
- Faults of temper she may have had, and eke narrow prejudices on sundry points.
- Extract from : « In the Valley » by Harold Frederic
- We do not indeed justify her faults, but let us not overlook our own.
- Extract from : « Female Scripture Biographies, Vol. I » by Francis Augustus Cox
- Should we not be particularly careful to keep clear of the faults we censure?
- Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 2 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson
- The play is simply superb, in spite of the faults of the translation.
- Extract from : « Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 15, July 9, 1870 » by Various
Antonyms for faults
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