Word Finder - fault

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A defect; something that detracts from perfection.

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A mistake or error.

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No! This is my fault, not yours.

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A weakness of character; a failing.

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For all her faults, she’s a good person at heart.

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A minor offense.

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Blame; the responsibility for a mistake.

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The fault lies with you.

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A fracture in a rock formation causing a discontinuity.

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In coal seams, coal rendered worthless by impurities in the seam.

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slate fault  dirt fault

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An illegal serve.

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An abnormal connection in a circuit.

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Want; lack

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A lost scent; act of losing the scent.

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To criticize, blame or find fault with something or someone.

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To fracture.

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To commit a mistake or error.

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To undergo a page fault.

Don't dare to say it was her fault.

It's all your fault, you know.

I am afraid I find fault with the poem as much as I enjoy it.

They're as much at fault as him.

I'm sorry I was rude to you, and I know it's not your fault you look so good in that suit.

It's my fault he was caught.

It wasn't his fault she was in such a rush tonight.

Jake's death is not your fault.

Or maybe it was all her fault, created by bad karma she built up when she was some crazy deity in a past life she had no memory of.

It's my fault Ne'Rin lost his faith in you.

It.s my fault Toby was wandering around without someone watching him, but really, Kris, who assigns a woman an Immortal kid that.s not even her own and expects her to know what to do with it?

But it's not his fault.

Really it was not my fault!

If she was bored, it was no one's fault but her own.

I do not suppose that I have attained to obscurity, but I should be proud if no more fatal fault were found with my pages on this score than was found with the Walden ice.

You could lie and tell him Humphries said it wasn't really his fault and his mother was just upset at losing a daughter.

Maybe Gabe was right; maybe this was partially her fault for breaking too many Immortal Laws at once.

It's my fault I can't right this.

Your chief fault, my friend, is in being made of wood, and that I suppose you cannot help.

They say it wasn't my fault - but they don't want to marry me.

Is it my fault?

No one's to blame," said Natasha--"It's my fault.

And it was always my fault.

It isn't your fault.

It was all her fault.

It wasn't Darcie's fault.

It wasn't your fault.

It wasn't his fault.

Maybe it had been partly her fault for insisting that he wear the pants.

It's nobody's fault, it's just one of those things.

Work to discover and rectify the fault in the dam ran into a number of problems.

However, fault may play some role in a court's distribution of property.

He found fault with the church for having substituted for Christian liberty a yoke of Jewish bondage.'

When a room has bad acoustic quality we can almost always assign the fault to Large smooth surfaces on the walls, floor or ceiling, which reflect or echo the voice of the speaker so that the direct waves sent out by him at any instant are received by a hearer with the waves sent out previously and reflected at these smooth surfaces.

It is with his interpretation and systematization of the moral sentiments that most of Martineau's critics have found fault.

His chief fault is a certain carelessness in writing; he can never write a bad poem, but rarely a poem absolutely flawless.

His sagacity was indeed sometimes at fault.

Nor is that a being bound foranother's offence; for when it is said that we through Adam's sin have become obnoxious to the divine judgment, is is not to be taken as if we, being ourselves innocent and blameless, bear the fault of his offence, but that, we having been brought under a curse through his transgression, he is said to have bound us.

Thus even infants, whilst they bring their own condemnation with them from their mother's womb, are bound not by another's but by their own fault.

If this fault be in me or in Jonathan my son, give Urim, and if it be in Thy people Israel, give Thummim.'

In this case the former of the two names might be derived from the root arar, " to curse"; the other from a root meaning "to be without fault."

When the missionaries of other Roman Catholic orders made their way into China, twenty years later, they found great fault with the manner in which certain Chinese practices had been dealt with by the Jesuits, a matter in which Ricci's action and policy had given the tone to the mission in China - though in fact that tone was rather inherent in the Jesuit system than the outcome of individual character, for controversies of an exactly parallel nature arose two generations later in southern India, between the Jesuits and Capuchins, regarding what were called "Malabar rites."

After the feudal vassals, decimated Struggle by the wars of religion and the executioners hand, with the and after the recalcitrant taxpayers, the Protestants, Protest- in their turn, and by their own fault, experienced this.

The 72nd canon ordains that " no minister or ministers shall, without licence and direction of the bishop under hand and seal, appoint or keep any solemn fasts, either publicly or in any private houses, other than such as by law are or by public authority shall be appointed, nor shall be wittingly present at any of them under pain of suspension for the first fault, of excommunication for the second, and of deposition from the ministry for the third."

The straw skep has, however, the irredeemable fault of fixed combs, and the gradual development of the movable-frame The mov- h i ve of to-day may be said to have first appeared in able-frame hive.

This appliance, known as the " Novice Honey Extractor," became very popular in the United States of America, but it had the fault FIG.

A well-made horse wants dissecting in detail, and then if a good judge can discover no fault with any part, but finds each of good proportions, and the whole to harmonize without defect, deformity or deficiency, he has before him a well-shaped horse; and of two equally well-made and equitably proportioned horses the best bred one will be the best.

The thickness of the cross wire may also occasion a fault.

They rest unconformably on the Silurian rocks on the King river and to the west are faulted against the schists by a powerful overthrust fault, traversing the Mount Lyell copper field.

It is probably separated on the east from the recent deposits of the pampas by a great fault, which, however, is always concealed by an enormous mass of scree material.