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
“Nathan for You” was zippy, and loath to waste a minute, especially when it could reveal a charming or dumbfounding human foible.
From Washington Post • Jul. 15, 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 was practically why “Seinfeld” was created; it seems there’s a “Simpsons” reference for just about every human foible.
From New York Times • Jul. 6, 2021
When, on the contrary, he began to be criticized for his supposed foible for the French Revolution, such attacks became far more pressing.
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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