foibles

noun

plural of foible
as in weaknesses
a defect in character could tolerate my uncle's foibles because we loved him dearly

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Recent Examples of foibles His foibles in the playoffs came to fruition while trying to guard Joel Embiid. — Tom Rende, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026 Each of their characters has their foibles but neither ever leans unlikable. — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 5 June 2026 Earlier, Tracy was talking about being willing to expose your foibles as an actor and to let these people who don’t have to put their faces on-camera use them. — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 19 June 2026 For a long time, the lifestyles and foibles of the modest bourgeoisie were a mainstay of art-house cinema, with urbane, upscale audiences happy to turn out to see versions of their own lives depicted on the screen. — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 25 June 2026 But Tom came in, offering a completely different personality with his own pluses, minuses and foibles. — Pat Saperstein, Variety, 14 June 2026 Assayas offers anecdotes, a feuilleton of tyranny in which the foibles of the mighty and the ruthless reveal the sentimental side of cruelty, the amusement value of ugly deeds, and the polite side of monstrous ideas. — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 13 May 2026 Rue descends into crime, working with Nazis, the feds, and a Black cowboy in a drug plot that stems from her adolescent foibles with monotone drug dealer Laurie (Martha Kelly). — Savannah Walsh, Vanity Fair, 29 May 2026 Set in the eponymous Texas metropolis, Dallas followed the Ewings, a powerful family of oil tycoons and ranch owners whose feuds and foibles made for wildly entertaining primetime viewing. — Britt Hayes, Entertainment Weekly, 28 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for foibles
  1. weaknesses
  2. faults
  3. shortcomings
  4. sins
Noun
  • The study, whose goal is to identify weaknesses in AI systems to help build stronger defenses, focuses on AI systems that use both images and text.
    — Laurie Mermet, Sun Sentinel, 6 July 2026
  • Acceptance of the issues, a willingness to work through weaknesses and negotiate the situations that come up.
    — Chris Evans, Forbes.com, 5 July 2026
Definition of weaknesses
Noun
  • The actor, whose political beliefs don’t cleanly map onto the modern divisions of the two-party system, has both a reverence for America as a set of ideals and an awareness of the faults within its history that creates interesting textual friction.
    — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 3 July 2026
  • But when both faults are at the same or similar elevated levels of stress, this is a problem.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 28 June 2026
Definition of faults
Noun
  • Youssef added that one of the biggest shortcomings in many squatter investigations is the lack of follow-up fact gathering.
    — Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 5 July 2026
  • Nilson Angulo’s strike was excellent and Gonzalo Plata’s winner, which will live long in the Ecuadorian memory, ensured Germany’s shortcomings were punished.
    — Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 5 July 2026
Definition of shortcomings
Noun
  • Do not allow the sins of the past to overwhelm, to drown the present.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 June 2026
  • That relationship was based on sinners confessing their sins to this vicar.
    — Pat Saperstein, Variety, 14 June 2026
Definition of sins

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