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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Captious :: Captious (a.) Apt to catch at faults; disposed to find fault or to cavil; eager to object; difficult to please.
Incorrect :: Incorrect (a.) Not correct; not according to a copy or model, or to established rules; inaccurate; faulty..
Defaulting :: Defaulting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Defaul.
Chasten :: Chasten (v. t.) To purify from errors or faults; to refine.
Imperfection :: Imperfection (a.) The quality or condition of being imperfect; want of perfection; incompleteness; deficiency; fault or blemish.
Findfaulting :: Findfaulting (a.) Apt to censure or cavil; faultfinding; captious.
Lapse :: Lapse (v. i.) To slide or slip in moral conduct; to fail in duty; to fall from virtue; to deviate from rectitude; to commit a fault by inadvertence or mistake.
Emend :: Emend (v. t.) To purge of faults; to make better; to correct; esp., to make corrections in (a literary work); to alter for the better by textual criticism, generally verbal..
Chastise :: Chastise (v. t.) To reduce to order or obedience; to correct or purify; to free from faults or excesses.
Commit :: Commit (v. t.) To do; to perpetrate, as a crime, sin, or fault..
Exculpatory :: Exculpatory () Clearing, or tending to clear, from alleged fault or guilt; excusing..
Fault :: Fault (n.) In coal seams, coal rendered worthless by impurities in the seam; as, slate fault, dirt fault, etc..
Defalcator :: Defalcator (n.) A defaulter or embezzler.
Pick-fault :: Pick-fault (n.) One who seeks out faults.
Findfault :: Findfault (n.) A censurer or caviler.
Expiation :: Expiation (n.) The act of making satisfaction or atonement for any crime or fault; the extinguishing of guilt by suffering or penalty.
Discordant :: Discordant (n.) Said of strata which lack conformity in direction of bedding, either as in unconformability, or as caused by a fault..
Squalodon :: Squally (a.) Not equally good throughout; not uniform; uneven; faulty; -- said of cloth.
Querulous :: Querulous (v.) Apt to find fault; habitually complaining; disposed to murmur; as, a querulous man or people..
Admonish :: Admonish (v. t.) To warn or notify of a fault; to reprove gently or kindly, but seriously; to exhort..
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