Synonym: catch, defect, error, flaw, misdeed, mistake, shortcoming, wrongdoing. Antonym: merit, virtue. Similar words: assault, haul, adult, result, consult, faculty, culture, as a result. Meaning: [fɔːlt] n. 1. responsibility for a bad situation or event 2. (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other 3. the quality of being inadequate or falling short of perfection 4. a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention 5. an imperfection in a device or machine 6. (sports) a serve that is illegal (e.g., that lands outside the prescribed area) 7. (electronics) equipment failure attributable to some defect in a circuit (loose connection or insulation failure or short circuit etc.). v. put or pin the blame on.
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181) Her doctor was at fault for/in not sending her straight to a specialist.
182) He could never accept that he had been at fault.
183) Motorists could lose their no-claims discount, even if they are not at fault in an accident.
184) The fault lay not with her but with her manager.
185) I didn't want her to jump to the conclusion that the divorce was in any way her fault.
186) Through no fault of his own, he spent a week locked up in jail.
187) The sweater had a fault in it and I had to take it back.
188) It's her own fault if she feels missed out at the party; she makes no effort to be friendly to people.
189) She pointed out, with some asperity, that it had all been my fault.
190) It didn't take long to find the fault and put it right.
191) He prickled at the suggestion that it had been his fault.
192) Ann's naivety is at least a fault on the right side.
193) The space shuttle remained earthbound because of a technical fault.
194) The printing was poor and he tried to blind me with science by saying that it was the fault of the paper and not his machine.
195) Now look here, it wasn't my fault that we missed the train.
196) There's no profit to be gained from endlessly discussing whose fault it was.
197) The scientists positioned the seismic activity as being along the San Andreas fault.
198) Incorrectness in speech was considered a great fault in a gentleman.
199) It's management that's at fault rather than the work - force .
199) Sentencedict.com is a online sentence dictionary, on which you can find nice sentences for a large number of words.
200) Tom, I'm so sorry about last night - it was all my fault.
201) It's his own fault he got hit - he was asking for it.
202) She won't mind your being late - besides, it's hardly your fault.
203) Television coverage of the match was truncated by a technical fault.
204) It is a big fault to think that you can learn how to manage people in business school.
More similar words: assault, haul, adult, result, consult, faculty, culture, as a result, cultural, ultimate, result in, multiple, be useful to, difficult, ultimately, as a result of, result from, consultant, agriculture, agricultural, simultaneously.