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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Incriminate :: Incriminate (v. t.) To accuse; to charge with a crime or fault; to criminate.
Wardmote :: Wardmote (n.) Anciently, a meeting of the inhabitants of a ward; also, a court formerly held in each ward of London for trying defaults in matters relating to the watch, police, and the like..
Throw :: Throw (n.) The amount of vertical displacement produced by a fault; -- according to the direction it is designated as an upthrow, or a downthrow..
Pain :: Pain (n.) To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve; as a child's faults pain his parents.
Debt :: Debt (n.) A duty neglected or violated; a fault; a sin; a trespass.
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..
Faulting :: Faulting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Faul.
Small :: Small (superl.) Being of slight consequence; feeble in influence or importance; unimportant; trivial; insignificant; as, a small fault; a small business..
Default :: Default (v. i.) To fail in duty; to offend.
Malnutrition :: Malnutrition (n.) Faulty or imperfect nutrition.
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..
Exculpate :: Exculpate (v. t.) To clear from alleged fault or guilt; to prove to be guiltless; to relieve of blame; to acquit.
Jump :: Jump (n.) A dislocation in a stratum; a fault.
Misdemeanor :: Misdemeanor (n.) Ill behavior; evil conduct; fault.
Scape :: Scape (n.) A freak; a slip; a fault; an escapade.
Hade :: Hade (v. i.) To deviate from the vertical; -- said of a vein, fault, or lode..
Underlay :: Underlay (v. i.) To incline from the vertical; to hade; -- said of a vein, fault, or lode..
Transgressive :: Transgressive (a.) Disposed or tending to transgress; faulty; culpable. .
Culprit :: Culprit (p. p.) One quilty of a fault; a criminal.
Default :: Default (v. t.) To fail to perform or pay; to be guilty of neglect of; to omit; as, to default a dividend..
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