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fallible
[ fal-uh-buhl ]
adjective
- (of persons) liable to err, especially in being deceived or mistaken.
- liable to be erroneous or false; not accurate:
fallible information.
fallible
/ ˈfælɪbəl /
adjective
- capable of being mistaken; erring
- liable to mislead
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Derived Forms
- ˌfalliˈbility, noun
- ˈfallibly, adverb
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Other Words From
- fal·li·bil·i·ty [fal-, uh, -, bil, -i-tee], fal·li·ble·ness noun
- fal·li·bly adverb
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of fallible1
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Example Sentences
A wine consumption map of the U.S. is as fallible as that wine map of Europe.
And anyway, if Brecht did not want us to feel for Mother Courage, why did he make her so richly shaded and humanly fallible?
In fairness, like glossies anywhere, French tabloids are fallible, prone to playing up alleged trysts that fall flat.
They reveal an altogether vulnerable, fallible person with ambition, passion, and doubt.
The masters of war, it turns out, are as fallible as the rest of us.
I shall therefore, in my effort to prove the Bible fallible, quote almost wholly from Christian critics.
With individual operations controlled by fallible men enormous waste is inevitable.
But to assume that human laws are above question, is to claim for their fallible authors infallibility.
The first assumption puts our Savior on the basis of a fallible human teacher, and nothing more.
Most of the figures are therefore carried over from winter to winter in the memories of fallible men.
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