Faults or Mistakes
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If you have ever made a mistake or feel that you have faults, then this lesson is for you. You will learn how to use the words, blunder, error, failing, fault, faux pas, flaw, guilty, mistake, to blame, and weakness, without making any mistakes when you do so.
Faults and mistakes are not the same thing. | A fault is something inherent to a person or to a thing. It can also be used to say who was the cause of something. | A mistake is something that a person makes. | In this lesson we will look at some synonyms of faults and mistakes and see how to use them correctly. | My greatest fault is my perfectionism. | The government's failings are all too apparent when you look at the latest unemployment figures. | I made a mistake and I’m sorry. | He was found guilty by the court and sentenced to 5 years in prison. | I committed a faux pas on the phone to my son yesterday. I told him that his wife’s family were a bunch of idiots. He told me he was at their home and we were on speaker-phone. | Your mistake cost the lives of over twenty people. I’d say it was a bit more than a blunder. | I’ve found a serious error in your calculations, I’m afraid. | She had a number of flaws, but her addiction to shoes was probably her biggest one. | Her weakness is and always was chocolate. | I know that I’m to blame and I’ll pay for the damage. | They are all trying to blame me because, unlike them, I conquered my paranoia. | She's not at fault. I am. | If I have any faults, it's that I hate making mistakes.
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