failing
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- noun
- /ˈfeɪlɪŋ/
:
defecto
- His greatest failing was his inability to forgive others.
- human failings
- moral failings
- personal failings
You do not take situations and make them about your deep failings as a human.
- You do not take situations and make them about your deep failings as a human.
- I've, I've, I I'm more driven towards improving my weaknesses and failings in the pursuit of my mission.
- So what success is not is measuring your flaws and failings based on another human's success.
- I don't take failure as a personal failing.
Examples
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Johnny Atwater was just an ordinary boy with a cheerful disposition and a few failings.
Fiction book (2001) -
You can deal with failings and failures and it's OK.
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How many people had a moral failing and they lost it all.
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You do not take situations and make them about your deep failings as a human.
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That was always one of your failings.
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I mean, they teach that God loves everyone, despite their failings.
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- It's one of my failings.
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More precisely, despite the failings of the university, I like my life there.
Fiction book (1991) -
I have some failings of my own to confess.
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All the flaws and failings of the house were visible again in the light of day.
Fiction book (1997)
Synonyms
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1.7
A fault in a person or thing that makes them less effective
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3.4
A fault that makes something less useful or valuable
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A weakness in a person's character that causes problems
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3.7
A weakness that makes a person or thing less effective
Antonyms
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Etymology
Failing meaning a 'fault' or 'weakness' also comes from the same root fail, with the idea of something 'lacking' or not working as it should. Think of a missing piece or small fault in a plan or a person, and you see why we call that a failing.