The gardener's main foible was forgetting to water the garden. From LearnThat.org.
But I think my only foible is really spending so long in this other world. From Wordnik.com. [An interview with Michael Robotham] Reference
When I bring up the latest Palin foible, my GOP co-workers ask me if I am afraid of Palin. From Wordnik.com. [Axelrod: I'm not thinking about Palin's next move] Reference
His foible was his admiration for the poets, and his belief that he could write poetry and was a first-rate critic. From Wordnik.com. [The Pirate of the Mediterranean A Tale of the Sea] Reference
Oddly enough, another word containing the same diphthong is my very favorite: "foible". From Wordnik.com. [cygnoir.net] Reference
I'm certainly not immune to this kind of foible, and I think any reporter worth the skin he or she occupies would say the same. From Wordnik.com. [Aspen Times - Top Stories] Reference
"Then I think you haven't a foible," said Algitha. From Wordnik.com. [The Daughters of Danaus] Reference
Ravenna, took advantage of this foible of his army. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches of the Fair Sex, in All Parts of the World] Reference
"These experiments in costume are a foible with me.". From Wordnik.com. [Doom Castle] Reference
It is my foible, perhaps, but I am always charmed with. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861] Reference
He contrived a happy stroke at the prevailing foible of. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Pantomime] Reference
It is the foible especially of American youth, -- pretension. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860] Reference
He evidently has a certain foible for old customs and costumes. From Wordnik.com. [Stuka Pilot]
Mrs. Vint had pricked his conscience, but she had wounded his foible. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866] Reference
This sketching on the tablecloth appears to be a bit of a family foible. From Wordnik.com. [Death of a Delft Blue]
The Doctor's little foible of curiosity had not escaped his observant eye. From Wordnik.com. [Flint His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes] Reference
One of the New York dailies is still printed with that human foible in mind. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding Down East Or, The Hermit of Beach Plum Point] Reference
"If I have a foible, it is under-statement," returned Hadria, with a half-smile. From Wordnik.com. [The Daughters of Danaus] Reference
But this foible goes only a small way to discount the sterling merits of the novel. From Wordnik.com. [Australian Writers] Reference
She also had her foible, and always spoke in disparaging tones of her establishment. From Wordnik.com. [Belles and Ringers] Reference
Another foible he had -- intellectual appreciation of beauty pushed to fainting-point. From Wordnik.com. [Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso] Reference
I cannot approve of your foible for dancing-shoes to wade through snow in such weather. From Wordnik.com. [Doom Castle] Reference
If he has a foible it is his belief that he thoroughly understands London and its ways. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, October 3, 1891] Reference
I'm still wedded to the idea one's simple dislike of something is merely a human foible. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
The aping of aristocratic pretensions has been a much-ridiculed foible of American women. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Of Whewell it has been pithily said, that "science was his forte, and omniscience his foible.". From Wordnik.com. [English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction] Reference
They relate to almost everything of feeling, duty, foible, and things of beauty, and leave a moral impress. From Wordnik.com. [Little Ferns For Fanny's Little Friends] Reference
New York pension manager Michelle Clayman trades on another well known behavioral foible: excessive optimism. From Wordnik.com. [Dismal Science Grabs A Couch] Reference
I soon saw that not only the attendants but the patrons of the Terrace were becoming interested in my foible. From Wordnik.com. [The Secrets of the German War Office] Reference
Not for nothing had he served his seven years, and he understood every fancy and foible of her shallow nature. From Wordnik.com. [Marcia Schuyler] Reference
That is not a foible peculiar to ostriches, but this particular fowl -- and he was very particular -- was notable for it. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, July 22, 1914] Reference
He was a delicate man, and if he had a foible which Milly could be said to execrate, it was that of "sitting in wet feet.". From Wordnik.com. [The Invader A Novel] Reference
In truth, the leading foible of Hodgkinson through life, was vanity -- the great taproot of all his irregularities and errors. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 3] Reference
But the least shade or coloring of this odious foible brings certain and indelible obloquy on the most elegant accomplishments. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches of the Fair Sex, in All Parts of the World] Reference
It is really at least recognized what I'm saying, that what it is, it is a human folly, a human foible to believe you are going to win it. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 30, 2002] Reference
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