foible
Example Sentences
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It helps fund managers justify their salaries and makes ordinary people feel better because of a foible known as the illusion of control.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 2, 2026
“He used to tell me that every joke has a message. Whatever you’re laughing at, you’re laughing at some foible of yours or somebody else’s. What is learned from laughter is learned well.”
From Washington Post • Dec. 8, 2022
Jones happily recites the joke using the other word, and the two men laugh, having been caught in a foible of their profession.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 26, 2021
This is not merely an eccentric interpretation of the facts or an interesting foible, nor is it an irrelevant example of anguished post-presidency chatter.
From Salon • Jun. 4, 2021
About the middle of that year, 1788, he toned down his severe estimate of the king, to whom he attributed "no foible which will enlist him against the good of his people."
From Thomas Jefferson The Apostle of Americanism by Chinard, Gilbert
Vocabulary lists containing foible
100 SAT Words Beginning with "F"
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The Bluest Eye
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