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
"Never For Ever" ultimately produced three Top 20 singles, including the indelible foible "Babooshka."
From Salon • Sep. 25, 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
Mr. Rodriguez took the foible as a challenge.
From New York Times • Nov. 20, 2018
This part of the scheme really annoyed him, as casting on a foible of his fellow-countrymen a reflection which he felt to be not wholly undeserved.
From The Duke Decides by Hill, Headon
Vocabulary lists containing foible
100 SAT Words Beginning with "F"
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The Bluest Eye
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