foibles in English

noun
1
a minor weakness or eccentricity in someone's character.
they have to tolerate each other's little foibles
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.

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1. Brown was fascinated by people's quirks and foibles.

2. We all have our little foibles.

3. Talking too much is one of his foibles.

4. We have to tolerate each other's little foibles.

5. Obviously every nation has its foibles of this kind.

6. Her act is full of funny observations on human foibles.

7. Boastfulness and arrogance are unpleasant foibles; lying is a sin

8. Just another screwy episode in a tournament filled with foibles.

9. 6 Just another screwy episode in a tournament filled with foibles.

10. Their personalities are easily exaggerated, their foibles ripe for caricature or psychotherapy.

11. You have to get used to other people's quirks and foibles.

12. Busybodies also tend to focus especially on the faults, foibles, and troubles of other folks

13. Their bedroom doors closed, and suddenly our foibles became the topic of dinner conversation.

14. Wives at times make small public jokes about the private foibles of their husbands, unconsciously making them feel abashed.

15. I shall never attempt to palliate my own foibles by exposing the error of another.

16. In fact, he was often quite outspoken about people, though usually with reference to their harmless foibles.

17. However, the three-door is so good looking that you do tend to forgive it these little foibles.

18. Does it seem that your mate suddenly has acquired faults and foibles that were absent when you were dating?

19. 27 In fact, he was often quite outspoken about people,[www.Sentencedict.com] though usually with reference to their harmless foibles.

20. The Inspectors all know each other extremely well and sometimes have to tolerate each other's little foibles, too.

21. True, some might test our patience with the idiosyncrasies and foibles that are not uncommon to old age.

22. 14 He gave the impression of being perpetually amused by, and yet far above, the foibles of fellow human beings.

23. I am glad that there is this Beknighted class of human beings called regulators that are apparently immune from the foibles of human cognition.

24. MnZ: I am glad that there is this Beknighted class of human beings called regulators that are apparently immune from the foibles of human cognition.

25. What a pity, then, that writer-director Darnell Martin reduces these pioneers to the sum of their foibles — greed, lust, drugs — and compacts each tragedy into bathos.

26. Every week political Cartoonists throughout the country and across the political spectrum apply their ink-stained skills to capture the foibles, memes, hypocrisies and other head-slapping events

27. Now 80, Warashina, ’62, ’64, continues to create satirical and humorous figurative sculptures that explore the Absurdity and foibles of human nature, as well as feminism and other political and social topics

28. 7:20) All have faults, adults as well as children; and when you think of it, are not the foibles of infants and toddlers less blameworthy than the unkind deeds (sometimes premeditated) of grown-ups?

29. A Bitingly funny, provocative, and revealing look at our foibles, passions, and pasttimes—from one of the most creative minds of our time."Nora Ephron can write about anything better than anybody else can write about anything."—The New York TimesFrom her Academy Award–nominated scr

30. The obstreperously mustachioed gentleman that Picasso chose to portray as Buste d’homme on 12 October 1968—close-up and larger than life, filling the canvas—is a member of his imaginary company of mousquetaires, characters whose brash, even raffish qualities, ironic foibles, and fabled exploits he employed to give voice to his own rich inner life, long and well lived, and to offer