Definition of fault

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Fault (n.) Defect; want; lack; default.

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Defective :: Defective (a.) Wanting in something; incomplete; lacking a part; deficient; imperfect; faulty; -- applied either to natural or moral qualities; as, a defective limb; defective timber; a defective copy or account; a defective character; defective rules..
Peccadillo :: Peccadillo (n.) A slight trespass or offense; a petty crime or fault.
Blamable :: Blamable (a.) Deserving of censure; faulty; culpable; reprehensible; censurable; blameworthy.
Complaint :: Complaint (n.) Expression of grief, regret, pain, censure, or resentment; lamentation; murmuring; accusation; fault-finding..
Task :: Task (v. t.) To charge; to tax; as with a fault.
Fastidious :: Fastidious (a.) Difficult to please; delicate to a fault; suited with difficulty; squeamish; as, a fastidious mind or ear; a fastidious appetite..
Expose :: Expose (v. t.) To disclose the faults or reprehensible practices of; to lay open to general condemnation or contempt by making public the character or arts of; as, to expose a cheat, liar, or hypocrite..
Frailty :: Frailty (a.) A fault proceeding from weakness; foible; sin of infirmity.
Faultily :: Faultily (adv.) In a faulty manner.
Pain :: Pain (n.) To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve; as a child's faults pain his parents.
Caviling :: Caviling (a.) Disposed to cavil; finding fault without good reason. See Captious.
Critic :: Critic (n.) One who passes a rigorous or captious judgment; one who censures or finds fault; a harsh examiner or judge; a caviler; a carper.
Lack :: Lack (v. t.) To blame; to find fault with.
Excuse :: Excuse (v. t.) To free from accusation, or the imputation of fault or blame; to clear from guilt; to release from a charge; to justify by extenuating a fault; to exculpate; to absolve; to acquit..
Blameless :: Blameless (a.) Free from blame; without fault; innocent; guiltless; -- sometimes followed by of.
Scape :: Scape (n.) A freak; a slip; a fault; an escapade.
Default :: Default (n.) A neglect of, or failure to take, some step necessary to secure the benefit of law, as a failure to appear in court at a day assigned, especially of the defendant in a suit when called to make answer; also of jurors, witnesses, etc..
Soften :: Soften (v. t.) To palliate; to represent as less enormous; as, to soften a fault..
Underlay :: Underlay (v. i.) To incline from the vertical; to hade; -- said of a vein, fault, or lode..
Redhibitory :: Redhibitory (a.) Of or pertaining to redhibition; as, a redhibitory action or fault..
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