foible

Example Sentences

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It helps fund managers justify their salaries and makes ordinary people feel better because of a foible known as the illusion of control.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 2, 2026

Mice, it turns out, can’t puke — a little foible that typically makes it difficult to use them to study nausea.

From New York Times • Nov. 1, 2022

“Nathan for You” was zippy, and loath to waste a minute, especially when it could reveal a charming or dumbfounding human foible.

From Washington Post • Jul. 15, 2022

Jones happily recites the joke using the other word, and the two men laugh, having been caught in a foible of their profession.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 26, 2021

Tom Cameron was quite as free of the foible of conceit as could be imagined.

From Ruth Fielding Homeward Bound A Red Cross Worker's Ocean Perils by Emerson, Alice B.