Definition of fault

"fault" in the noun sense

1. mistake, error, fault

a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention

"he made a bad mistake"

"she was quick to point out my errors"

"I could understand his English in spite of his grammatical faults"

2. defect, fault, flaw

an imperfection in an object or machine

"a flaw caused the crystal to shatter"

"if there are any defects you should send it back to the manufacturer"

3. demerit, fault

the quality of being inadequate or falling short of perfection

"they discussed the merits and demerits of her novel"

"he knew his own faults much better than she did"

4. fault, faulting, geological fault, shift, fracture, break

geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other

"they built it right over a geological fault"

"he studied the faulting of the earth's crust"

5. fault

electronics) equipment failure attributable to some defect in a circuit (loose connection or insulation failure or short circuit etc.

"it took much longer to find the fault than to fix it"

6. fault

responsibility for a bad situation or event

"it was John's fault"

7. fault

sports) a serve that is illegal (e.g., that lands outside the prescribed area

"he served too many double faults"

"fault" in the verb sense

1. blame, fault

put or pin the blame on

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Quotations for fault

Denying a fault doubles it. [ Proverb ]

Teach me to feel another's woe,
To hide the fault I see;
That mercy I to others show,
That mercy show to me. [ Pope ]

He who finds fault means to buy. [ Proverb ]

You find fault with a fat goose. [ Proverb ]

A fault denied is twice committed. [ French Proverb ]

Every one knows how to find fault. [ Proverb ]

He who suspects is seldom at fault. [ Italian Proverb ]

A fault confessed is half redressed. [ Proverb ]

Condemn the fault, but not the actor. [ William Shakespeare ]

Every one puts his fault on the times. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Hunger finds no fault with the cookery. [ Proverb ]

Confession of a fault makes half amends. [ Proverb ]

Not to repent of a fault is to justify it. [ Proverb ]

The fault is as great as he that is faulty.. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Oftentimes, excusing of a fault
Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse;
As patches, set upon a little breach.
Discredit more in hiding of the fault,
Than did the fault before it was so patched. [ William Shakespeare ]

Where no fault is there needs no punishment. [ Proverb ]

The fault of the horse is put on the saddle. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Avoid extremes, and shun the fault of such
Who still are pleased too little or too much. [ Pope ]

Your main fault is, you are good for nothing. [ Proverb ]

Let wealth come in by comely thrift,
And not by any sordid shift;
It is haste makes waste;
Extremes have still their fault.
Who gripes too hard the dry and slippery sand,
Holds none at all, or little, in his hand. [ Herrick ]

There are times when patience proves at fault. [ Robert Browning ]

A fault wilfully committed deserves no pardon. [ Proverb ]

Pride, of all others the most dangerous fault,
Proceeds from want of sense, or want of thought. [ Roscommon ]

He may find fault, but let him mend it if he can. [ Proverb ]

Avarice is always poor, but poor by ber own fault. [ Johnson ]

A fault is made worse by endeavoring to conceal it. [ Proverb ]

Nobody is willing to acknowledge he is in the fault. [ Proverb ]

The great fault in women is to desire to be like men. [ De Maistre ]

A wilful fault has no excuse, and deserves no pardon. [ Proverb ]

All are presumed good till they are found in a fault. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

He that commits a fault thinks every one speaks of it. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

It is easier to avoid a fault than acquire perfection. [ Proverb ]

If death be terrible, the fault is not in death, but you. [ Proverb ]

A nobody is just the person to find fault with everybody. [ E. P. Day ]

The fault of the ass must not be laid on the pack-saddle. [ Proverb ]

Whatever we cannot help, is our misfortune, not our fault. [ Proverb ]

It is my own fault if I am deceived by the same man twice. [ Proverb ]

The mind alone is in fault which can never fly from itself. [ Horace ]

He who overlooks a fault, invites the commission of another. [ Syrus ]

Every boor can find fault; it would baffle him to do better. [ German Proverb ]

Fools can find fault indeed, but they cannot act more wisely. [ Langbein ]

Suspicion may be no fault, but shewing it may be a great one. [ Proverb ]

One fault begets another; one crime renders another necessary. [ Southey ]

To be angry, is to revenge the fault of others upon ourselves. [ Pope ]

Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

He that is foolish in the fault, let him be wise in punishment. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

He that repents of a fault upon right grounds is almost innocent. [ Proverb ]

In love affairs, from innocence to the fault, there is but a kiss. [ A. Second ]

Man's grand fault is, and remains, that he has so many small ones. [ Jean Paul ]

When flattery is unsuccessful, it is but the fault of the flatterer. [ Levis ]

We shall never have friends, if we expect to find them without fault. [ Proverb ]

The disclosure of a secret is always the fault of him who confided it. [ French ]

It is a meaner part of sense to find a fault than taste an excellence. [ Rochester ]

He shall be immortal who liveth till he be stoned by one without fault. [ Fuller ]

Shew me a man without a spot, and I'll shew you a maid without a fault. [ Proverb ]

There is a fault in the house, but would you have it built without any. [ Proverb ]

We are too prone to find fault; let us look for some of the perfections. [ Johann C. F. Von Schiller ]

Every one fault seeming monstrous till his fellow-fault came to match it. [ Shakespeare ]

When a secret is revealed, it is the fault of the man who has intrusted it. [ Bruyere ]

The majority of the troubles in this world are the fault of the grammarians. [ Montaigne ]

To forgive a fault in another is more sublime than to be faultless one's self. [ George Sand ]

Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy. [ Herbert ]

To be silent is but a small virtue; but it is a serious fault to reveal secrets. [ Ovid ]

If a man is unhappy, this must be his own fault; for God made all men to be happy. [ Epictetus ]

The first fault is the child of simplicity, but every other the offspring of guilt. [ Goldsmith ]

If extravagance were a fault, it would not have a place in the festivals of the gods. [ Aristippus ]

This is the great fault in wine; it first trips up the feet, it is a cunning wrestler. [ Plautus ]

Show a good man his error, and he turns it to a virtue; but an ill, it doubles his fault. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie; A fault, which needs it most, grows two thereby. [ Herbert ]

In love quarrels, the party that loves the most is always most willing to acknowledge the greater fault. [ Sir Walter Scott ]

There is often a complaint of want of parts, when the fault lies in a want of a due improvement of them. [ Locke ]

We can prostrate ourselves in the dust when we have committed a fault, but it is not best to remain there. [ Chateaubriand ]

In ill-matched marriages, the fault is less the woman's than the man's, as the choice depended on her the least. [ Mme. de Rieux ]

It is necessary to repent for years in order to efface a fault in the eyes of men; a single tear suffices with God. [ Chateaubriand ]

To expect an author to talk as he writes is ridiculous: or even if he did, you would find fault with him as a pedant. [ Hazlitt ]

A woman repents sincerely of her fault, only after being weaned from her infatuation for the one who induced her to commit it. [ Latena ]

These men (chronic fault-finders) should consider that it is their envy which deforms everything, and that the ugliness is not in the object, but in the eye. [ Steele ]

We derive from nature no fault that may not become a virtue, no virtue that may not degenerate into a fault. Faults of the latter kind are most difficult to cure. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Knowledge being to be had only of visible and certain truth, error is not a fault of our knowledge, but a mistake of our judgment, giving assent to that which is not true. [ John Locke ]

Necessity, that great refuge and excuse for human frailty, breaks through all law; and he is not to be accounted in fault whose crime is not the effect of choice, but force. [ Pascal ]

For the first time, the best may err, art may persuade, and novelty spread out its charms. The first fault is the child of simplicity; but every other the offspring of guilt. [ Goldsmith ]

Woman has a smile for every joy, a tear for every sorrow, a consolation for every grief, an excuse for every fault, a prayer for every misfortune, and encouragement for every hope. [ Sainte-Foix ]

I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn't my fault that I'm not hitting, how can I get mad at myself? [ Yogi Berra ]

A woman with a hazel eye never elopes from her husband, never chats scandal, never finds fault, never talks too much nor too little - always is an entertaining, intellectual, agreeable and lovely creature. [ Frederic Saunders ]

The words in prose ought to express the intended meaning; if they attract attention to themselves, it is a fault; in the very best styles, as Southey's, you read page after page without noticing the medium. [ Coleridge ]

The lowest people are generally the first to find fault with show or equipage; especially that of a person lately emerged from his obscurity. They never once consider that he is breaking the ice for themselves. [ Shenstone ]

In my enthusiasm I may have exaggerated the details a little, but you will easily forgive me that fault, since I believe it is the first time I have ever deflected from perpendicular fact on an occasion like this. [ Mark Twain, from The Story Of A Speech ]

Want of perseverance is the great fault of women in everything - morals, attention to health, friendship, and so on. It cannot be too often repeated that women never reach the end of anything through want of perseverance. [ Mme. Necker ]

Some read books only with a view to find fault, while others read only, to be taught; the former are like venomous spiders, extracting a poisonous quality, where the latter, like the bees, sip out a sweet and profitable juice. [ L'Estrange ]

The want of interest renders a person negligent; servants are commonly negligent in what concerns their master's interest. Negligence is therefore the fault of persons of all descriptions, but particularly those in low condition. [ G. Crabb ]

One could not wish any man to fall into a fault; yet it is often precisely after a fault, or a crime even, that the morality which is in a man first unfolds itself, and what of strength he as a man possesses, now when all else is gone from him. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

The morbid states of health, the irritableness of disposition arising from unstrung nerves, the impatience, the crossness, the fault-finding of men, who, full of morbid influences, are unhappy themselves, and throw the cloud of their troubles like a dark shadow upon others, teach us what eminent duty there is in health. [ Beecher ]

Plutarch tells us of an idle and effeminate Etrurian who found fault with the manner in which Themistocles had conducted a recent campaign. What, said the hero in reply, have you, too, something to say about war, who are like the fish that has a sword, but no heart? He is always the severest censor on the merits of others who has the least worth of his own. [ E. L. Magoon ]

fault in Scrabble®

The word fault is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 8

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters fault:

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fault in Words With Friends™

The word fault is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 10

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters fault:

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Words within the letters of fault

2 letter words in fault (4 words)

3 letter words in fault (4 words)

4 letter words in fault (2 words)

5 letter words in fault (1 word)

fault + 1 blank (6 words)

Word Growth involving fault

Shorter words in fault

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Longer words containing fault

default defaulted

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