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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Thrum :: Thrum (n.) A shove out of place; a small displacement or fault along a seam.
Culprit :: Culprit (p. p.) One quilty of a fault; a criminal.
Chasten :: Chasten (v. t.) To purify from errors or faults; to refine.
Warning :: Warning (n.) Caution against danger, or against faults or evil practices which incur danger; admonition; monition..
Palliate :: Palliate (v. t.) To cover with excuses; to conceal the enormity of, by excuses and apologies; to extenuate; as, to palliate faults..
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..
Faulty :: Faulty (a.) Guilty of a fault, or of faults; hence, blamable; worthy of censure..
Confess :: Confess (v. t.) To make acknowledgment or avowal in a matter pertaining to one's self; to acknowledge, own, or admit, as a crime, a fault, a debt..
Faulting :: Faulting (n.) The state or condition of being faulted; the process by which a fault is produced.
Misdoing :: Misdoing (n.) A wrong done; a fault or crime; an offense; as, it was my misdoing..
Mistake :: Mistake (n.) An apprehending wrongly; a misconception; a misunderstanding; a fault in opinion or judgment; an unintentional error of conduct.
Hade :: Hade (v. i.) To deviate from the vertical; -- said of a vein, fault, or lode..
Improve :: Improve (v. t.) To disapprove; to find fault with; to reprove; to censure; as, to improve negligence..
Corrigendum :: Corrigendum (n.) A fault or error to be corrected.
Censure :: Censure (n.) The act of blaming or finding fault with and condemning as wrong; reprehension; blame.
Complainer :: Complainer (n.) One who complains or laments; one who finds fault; a murmurer.
Amiss :: Amiss (a.) Wrong; faulty; out of order; improper; as, it may not be amiss to ask advice..
Task :: Task (v. t.) To charge; to tax; as with a fault.
Vicious :: Vicious (a.) Characterized by vice or defects; defective; faulty; imperfect.
Criticism :: Criticism (n.) The rules and principles which regulate the practice of the critic; the art of judging with knowledge and propriety of the beauties and faults of a literary performance, or of a production in the fine arts; as, dramatic criticism..
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