foible in English

noun

1

a minor weakness or eccentricity in someone's character.

they have to tolerate each other's little foibles

synonyms: weakness, failing, shortcoming, flaw, imperfection, blemish, fault, defect, limitation, quirk, kink, idiosyncrasy, eccentricity, peculiarity

2

the weaker part of a sword blade, from the middle to the point.

Again footwork is often required to create the correct distance to allow you to parry the foible of the attacking blade.

noun

• weakness, failing, shortcoming, flaw, imperfection, blemish, fault, defect, limitation, quirk, kink, idiosyncrasy, eccentricity, peculiarity
• mannerism, idiosyncrasy

Use "foible" in a sentence

1. It is a big foible of all the people.

2. Today, however, the much-maligned human foible is being looked at in a different light.

3. Is it Robin Culley, newly sensitive, newly observant of human foible?

4. My grandfather always carries his watch in his pocket; it's a foible of his.

5. You could do Ebay , or dating or indulge another foible of choice.

6. I should never attempt to palliate my own foible by expose the error of another.Sentencedict.com

7. I should never attempt to palliate my own foible by expose the error of another.

8. I shall never attempt to palliate my own foible by exposing the error of another .

9. The myth of a woman taking the blame to protect the male foible should not be perpetuated.

10. My grand-father was always buying himself new suits of clothes, it was a foible of his.

11. Sometimes a given page presented me with the challenge of deciding which design foible to point out.

12. If there was any foible in the SL - II's handling it only shows up when sprinting hard.

13. Variations on this foible include watching through a keyhole, or taking photographs, as their wife and her lover copulate before the married pair have sex.

14. This is often backed up by the statement that a love of Nature is a foible of urbanized people who have no notion what Nature is really like.