Foibles is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for FOIBLES in dictionary:

NOUN:
• FOIBLE, a minor weakness or failing
• the part of a sword blade from the middle to the point.
• a minor weakness or eccentricity in someone's character

Words related to FOIBLES

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How to use FOIBLES in a sentence

• Avarice and pride of rank were the farthest in the world from being the foibles of Mr.
• Neither his education nor the manners acquired in Grub Street had qualified him to be an observer of those lighter foibles which were touched by Addison with so dexterous a hand.
• If he does not love you a little for the foibles, madam, God help you from the day of the wedding.
• Spectators pardoned, almost with a smile, those tender foibles of his which, nevertheless, his proximity to old age rendered still more shocking.
• The major himself had been young, not so very long ago, and was inclined toward indulgence for the foibles of youth.
• In fact, Queen Elizabeth had a character strangely compounded of the strongest masculine sense, with those foibles which are chiefly supposed proper to the female sex.
• This relationship resulted naturally in transplanting to the mind of the youth some of the fancies and, possibly, the foibles of the man.
• Sane judgment and generous experience tell him that the foibles of mankind are his own as well as theirs, and are not to be changed by so slight a means as a railing tongue.
• Joan persisted in her mood of austere contempt for the foibles of the world.
• The severity of her discipline was tempered by a tolerant and half-amused insight into the pardonable foibles of humanity.
• On such occasions his good qualities of ease, kindliness, and intelligence are seen, and his little faults and foibles hidden.
• Like many attractive women of decided character, she had her full share of faults and foibles.
• With a fee of two double eagles in his pocket, the doctor could look with charity upon the foibles of human nature.
• He had the virtues and the foibles that belonged to that character in the generation the last of whom are now passing from the stage of public action.
• But such desultory recollections as these are apt to dwell only on the eccentricities or peculiarities or foibles of men.
• He could not stoop to talk with other men about the foibles of his wife.
• Cooper is, indeed, a striking instance of how much more a man loses in the estimation of the world by the exhibition of foibles, than he will by that of vices.
• But with all his foibles, we cannot but consider him as a good critic, and a man of genius.
• There was more outward respect for the authorities, and among the younger men, graduates and undergraduates, more inward amusement at foibles and eccentricities.
• Guests here had foibles at times, and a rapid exit was too easy.
• A biography ought to be well seasoned with faults and foibles.
• All the questionable pursuits, fancies, foibles of silly, childish man are discussed grimly and at length in the newspapers and magazines.
• The old gentleman added to his other foibles that of a collector.
• He discussed in easy, familiar style, the foibles of his fellow-men, and especially the events of his own life and the traits of his own character.
• She told herself that she was beyond such absurd human foibles as jealousy.
• I mention your foibles, not to reproach you with them, but that you may consider their nature and effects, and renounce them.
• Whatever may have been his defects, or whatever were his foibles, they must have been the faults of his mind, not of his heart.
• We suit each other so well, and we are like each other in our foibles and weaknesses.
• Randy Fecesi was, despite his foibles, a prime commodity.
• Their foibles have been easily forgiven and their virtues have been gratefully recognized.

Similar words containing FOIBLE without suffix s

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