Foibles
[fɔɪbəlz]
Examples
- Notwithstanding these foibles, and various others needless to mention--but by no means of a refined or elevating character--how pretty she was! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Now that was tact, for two of the ruling foibles of the masculine mind were touched. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- He knew that this was like the sudden impulse of a madman--incongruous even with his habitual foibles. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- And no tyrant-passion dragged him back; no enthusiasms, no foibles encumbered his way. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- But if you set forth the foibles of Londoners as plainly as you did in 'The Honey Bees,' I am afraid you would have half a dozen libel cases. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
Editor: Rae