foibles
- plural of foible.
Example Sentences
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Brandon Webb is talking the way parents do when their kids aren’t around—tallying their strengths and foibles, failures and wins, and the extent to which his own shortcomings as a father may have contributed.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 4, 2026
But the film itself is far from your average rom-com, more interested in the mechanics and machinations of modern dating than its lovable foibles.
From Salon • Jan. 6, 2026
Martin Amis, a merciless observer of foibles, puts one writer’s envy of another at the heart of “The Information.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025
He is an observational comedian, with an eye to the foibles of everyday life — long-term marriage, encounters at airports, the temptations of junk food — but he never pokes fun at anyone but himself.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 10, 2025
I could see liking that: You’d get to know a small group of men, their characters and foibles, and they’d get to know you.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
