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.
Writing about their failures, foibles and frustrations did not lessen the hold that these three men and their movie magic have on Fischer.
From Los Angeles Times
Long-married people who are getting on in years do learn to accept one another’s foibles.
A surgical approach to the flaws and foibles of American society.
This image, of a young woman with dreams, goals and a few foibles, is what historian William J. Mann sketches in his sensitive new book, “Black Dahlia: Murder, Monsters, and Madness in Midcentury Hollywood.”
From Los Angeles Times
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