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foible

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6 lettersPronunciation /ˈfɔɪbəl/Part of speech nounSorted befiloStarts with FEnds with E0 clues
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Definitions

  1. the weaker part of a sword's blade from the forte to the tip

Word origin

1640–50, from Early Modern French foible (“feeble”) (contemporary French faible). Doublet of feeble.

Used in a sentence

  • Try to look past his foibles and see the friendly fellow underneath.
  • He knew that this was like the sudden impulse of a madman—incongruous even with his habitual foibles.
  • Marguerite Blakeney was, above all, a woman, with all a woman’s fascinating foibles, all a woman’s most lovable sins.

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