A behavioral attribute that is distinctive and peculiar to an individual.
1 Once more the company laughed at Sir Chichester's apology for his foible .
2 His love of dress is a mere foible , that may be excused.
3 Mrs. Vint had pricked his conscience, but she had wounded his foible .
4 The Doctor's little foible of curiosity had not escaped his observant eye.
5 José Medina saw nothing at all grotesque or ridiculous in this particular foible .
6 He concluded that it was a foible of the legal mind.
7 His crestfallen expression suggested his difficulty explaining this psychological foible in his team.
8 They are indulged in this foible - pardonable it may be-bytheir husbands and parents.
9 When engaged in mischief-hisbesetting foible - his eyes shone like carbuncles with unholy light.
10 Vagueness was his foible , the relaxation of an intellect uncomfortably keen.
11 It is only my foible for making a thing look nice.
12 The cliff possesses an acoustic foible which I have never met anywhere else.
13 Rien ne révolte les grands d'un royaume comme un Gouvernoment foible et dérangé.
14 Winking was his foible , as puckering of the face was Coyne's.
15 Most people call fretting a minor fault, a foible , and not a vice.
16 Why, didn't you know that spiritualism was that poor man's foible ?
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