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Downthrow :: Downthrow (n.) The sudden drop or depression of the strata of rocks on one side of a fault. See Throw, n..

At :: At (prep.) The relation of some state or condition; as, at war; at peace; at ease; at your service; at fault; at liberty; at risk; at disadvantage..

Blame :: Blame (v. t.) To censure; to express disapprobation of; to find fault with; to reproach.

Discipline :: Discipline (n.) Severe training, corrective of faults; instruction by means of misfortune, suffering, punishment, etc..

Smooth :: Smooth (a.) To palliate; to gloze; as, to smooth over a fault..

Fault-finder :: Fault-finder (n.) One who makes a practice of discovering others' faults and censuring them; a scold.

Culpable :: Culpable (a.) Deserving censure; worthy of blame; faulty; immoral; criminal.

Underlay :: Underlay (n.) The inclination of a vein, fault, or lode from the vertical; a hade; -- called also underlie..

Corrigible :: Corrigible (a.) Capable of being set right, amended, or reformed; as, a corrigible fault..

Delinquency :: Delinquency (n.) Failure or omission of duty; a fault; a misdeed; an offense; a misdemeanor; a crime.

Forfeit :: Forfeit (n.) To lose, or lose the right to, by some error, fault, offense, or crime; to render one's self by misdeed liable to be deprived of; to alienate the right to possess, by some neglect or crime; as, to forfeit an estate by treason; to forfeit reputation by a breach of promise; -- with to before the one acquiring what is forfeited..

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..

Correct :: Correct (v. t.) To bring back, or attempt to bring back, to propriety in morals; to reprove or punish for faults or deviations from moral rectitude; to chastise; to discipline; as, a child should be corrected for lying..

Findfault :: Findfault (n.) A censurer or caviler.

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.

Excuse :: Excuse (v. t.) That which is offered as a reason for being excused; a plea offered in extenuation of a fault or irregular deportment; apology; as, an excuse for neglect of duty; excuses for delay of payment..

Victim :: Victim (n.) A person or living creature destroyed by, or suffering grievous injury from, another, from fortune or from accident; as, the victim of a defaulter; the victim of a railroad accident..

Transgressive :: Transgressive (a.) Disposed or tending to transgress; faulty; culpable. .

Censure :: Censure (n.) The act of blaming or finding fault with and condemning as wrong; reprehension; blame.

Fail :: Fail (v. i.) Miscarriage; failure; deficiency; fault; -- mostly superseded by failure or failing, except in the phrase without fail..

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