bad habit, catch, defection, failing, flaw, idiosyncrasy, kink, preoccupation, shortcoming, vice, weak side
Definitionn. a behavioral attribute that is distinctive and peculiar to an individual
Last update: July 26, 2015
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People tolerate her foibles because of her old age. [noun]
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His foible was omnipotence, and he aped the gods of Greece in turn. [noun]
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But this is a harmless little foible in the English whale-hunters, which the Nantucketer does not take much to heart; probably, because he knows that he has a few foibles himself. [noun]
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Rumpled stockings, it may be, possibly is, a foible of mine but still it's a thing I simply hate to see. [noun]
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There would have been a bull fight for every foible. [Please select]
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One foible I admit: the tendency to inopportune benevolence. [Please select]
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I made a little hobby--it was a foible, a vanity, what you will--of my omniscience. [Please select]
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Paul smiled indulgently on the little foible of his friend. [Please select]
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When engaged in mischief--his besetting foible--his eyes shone like carbuncles with unholy light. [Please select]
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