adjective
definition
Capable of making mistakes or being wrong.
Examples of fallible in a Sentence
He was fallible like everyone else.
Sure, they were fallible people, but … when did they fail?
Even if you crave the support of a new boyfriend or girlfriend, realize that all people are fallible so the person you turn to may let you down.
Initially he kept repeating that he was in the hands of God, not fallible human doctors.
To the translation and interpretation of the Scriptures men might bring a fallible judgment, but this would be assisted by the direct action of the Spirit of God in proportion to their faith.
There is no doubt that in all this Burke was in the right, as he was in his denunciation of the mischief certain to follow when a nation tries to start afresh, and to blot out all past progress in the light of simple reason, which is often most fallible when it believes itself to be most infallible.
And yet, God is at work right now using a weak and very fallible man to speak to you, His people.
Memories are notoriously fallible on material facts, vulnerable to suggestion, to rewriting, to complete erasure.
Because readers understand that the first person showcases a human and therefore fallible perspective, writers can tell two different stories at once.
And it proved just as fallible, just as corrupt and just as oppressive as anything that had gone before it.
The Ivory Coast continue to look fallible at the back.
All Scripture has passed through human instrumentality; consequently, all Scripture has become fallible.
The Lithium-Ion batteries are fallible, whether they are in phones or gadgets, but with a little conscious effort, you can easily get two years out of a battery.
Even conservative students of the Bible urge that its historical passages must be viewed precisely in the light of any other historical writings of antiquity; and the fact that the oldest Hebrew manuscript dates only from the 8th century A.D., and therefore of necessity brings to us the message of antiquity through the fallible medium of many generations of copyists, is far more clearly kept in mind than it formerly was.
And this is before any consideration is given to making the machines less fallible.
He held that the Bible was the sufficient revelation of the will of God, and he threw away the philosophy and theology of the later Roman Church, whereas he declared that the early Church Fathers were helpful, though still fallible, interpreters of the Word.
Humanists were another matter of course, but then we're all fallible.
Science is simply our best human guesswork (always fallible) about the ' How ' question.
Sure, they were fallible people, but … when did they fail?