Faults Synonyms and Antonyms

Responsibility
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. guilts
  2. liabilities
  3. blames
  4. accountability
(geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. blemishes
  2. sins
  3. peccadillos
  4. defects
  5. frailties
  6. delinquencies
  7. weaknesses
  8. transgressions
  9. flaws
  10. offenses
  11. defaults
  12. breaks
  13. wrongs
  14. misconducts
  15. misdemeanors
  16. trespasses
  17. neglects
  18. mistakes
  19. improprieties
  20. liabilities
  21. shortcomings
  22. lapses
  23. foibles
  24. failings
  25. deficiencies
  26. bugs
  27. catachreses
  28. blunders
  29. fractures
  30. blames
  31. derelictions
  32. crimes
  33. imperfections
  34. misdeeds
  35. negligences
  36. wrongdoings
  37. indiscretions
  38. errors
  39. dislocations
  40. demerits
  41. shifts
Antonyms:
  1. merits
A wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. errors
  2. mistakes
  3. lapses
  4. blunders
Put or pin the blame on
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. criticizes
  2. accuses
  3. knocks
  4. pans
  5. blames
  6. censures
  7. charges
  8. raps
Antonyms:
  1. absolves
The quality of being inadequate or falling short of perfection
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. demerits
Responsibility for a mistake or an offense; culpability.
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. blames
Something that impairs or detracts from physical perfection; a defect.
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. blemishes

Words Related to Faults

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Faults Sentence Examples

  • Valdemar's worst faults were a certain aloofness and taciturnity.

  • As a statesman, he certainly committed grave faults - through excess of diplomatic subtlety, lack of forethought, and sometimes even through ingenuousness; but it must with justice be admitted that, in spite of his reputation for pugnacity and obstinacy, he never failed, either by temperament or on principle, to exhaust every peaceful expedient in settling questions.

  • That his brother retained the throne while James lost it is an ironical demonstration that a more pitiless fate awaits the ruler whose faults are of the intellect, than one whose faults are of the heart.

  • The standard of excellence in the ancient writers was indeed far above the level of the 16th century; but the fatal habit of taking at second hand what should have been acquired by direct observation retarded progress more than the possession of better models assisted it, so that the fundamental faults of medieval science remained uncorrected.

  • Nevertheless, with all the Pucelle's faults, it is amusing.

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