Definition of fault

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Fault (n.) A moral failing; a defect or dereliction from duty; a deviation from propriety; an offense less serious than a crime.

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Delinquent :: Delinquent (n.) One who fails or neglects to perform his duty; an offender or transgressor; one who commits a fault or a crime; a culprit.
Perfect :: Perfect (a.) Brought to consummation or completeness; completed; not defective nor redundant; having all the properties or qualities requisite to its nature and kind; without flaw, fault, or blemish; without error; mature; whole; pure; sound; right; correct..
Failance :: Failance (n.) Fault; failure; omission.
Inculpableness :: Inculpableness (n.) Blamelessness; faultlessness.
Vice :: Vice (n.) A defect; a fault; an error; a blemish; an imperfection; as, the vices of a political constitution; the vices of a horse..
Connive :: Connive (v. i.) To close the eyes upon a fault; to wink (at); to fail or forbear by intention to discover an act; to permit a proceeding, as if not aware of it; -- usually followed by at..
Transgressive :: Transgressive (a.) Disposed or tending to transgress; faulty; culpable. .
Complainer :: Complainer (n.) One who complains or laments; one who finds fault; a murmurer.
Long :: Long (prep.) By means of; by the fault of; because of.
Quarrel :: Quarrel (v. i.) To find fault; to cavil; as, to quarrel with one's lot..
Rub :: Rub (n.) Imperfection; failing; fault.
Guaranty :: Guaranty (n.) In law and common usage: To undertake or engage that another person shall perform (what he has stipulated); to undertake to be answerable for (the debt or default of another); to engage to answer for the performance of (some promise or duty by another) in case of a failure by the latter to perform; to undertake to secure (something) to another, as in the case of a contingency. See Guarantee, v. t..
Overthrow :: Overthrow (n.) A faulty return of the ball by a fielder, so that the striker makes an additional run..
Blamable :: Blamable (a.) Deserving of censure; faulty; culpable; reprehensible; censurable; blameworthy.
Confess :: Confess (v. i.) To make confession; to disclose sins or faults, or the state of the conscience..
Connivance :: Connivance (n.) Intentional failure or forbearance to discover a fault or wrongdoing; voluntary oversight; passive consent or cooperation.
Excuse :: Excuse (v. t.) That which excuses; that which extenuates or justifies a fault.
Misdoing :: Misdoing (n.) A wrong done; a fault or crime; an offense; as, it was my misdoing..
Squalodon :: Squally (a.) Not equally good throughout; not uniform; uneven; faulty; -- said of cloth.
Extenuate :: Extenuate (v. t.) To lessen; to palliate; to lessen or weaken the force of; to diminish the conception of, as crime, guilt, faults, ills, accusations, etc.; -- opposed to aggravate..
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