frailty
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6.6
- noun
- /ˈfreɪlti/
- Offensive
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debilidad moral
- Her tendency to give in to temptation revealed a deep sense of frailty in her character.
- human frailty
- catalogue of human frailty
- common human frailty
They very much have their own weaknesses and frailties, and they are not superhuman.
- They very much have their own weaknesses and frailties, and they are not superhuman.
- As a case, as the court said, diverse frailties of humankind.
- Now I know that doesn't jive with, with a lot of people, but, but I knew my frailties, I knew my weaknesses.
- It's rather unbelievable that you're this honest and vulnerable about your real life and your frailties and worries and thoughts at your level.
- Come my funny has to come out of sadness, some sort of human frailty.
- He measured my virtue by the frailty of my sex and thought it was the man, not the person who I love.
- Like and that your return to your human frailty only occurs in the aftermath of you know the most intense aspect of that experience.
Examples
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Because of human frailty, good governance requires a rule of law.
Academic text (2017) -
The June 1991 events demonstrated the frailty of the transition to democracy in Algeria.
Academic text (1993) -
There is some frailty in you.
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We were all formed of frailty and error.
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Let's not judge human frailty so harshly.
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Only by confronting and understanding human frailty can movement begin on the path toward enlightenment and liberation.
Academic text (1990) -
Mother's heart was ardent, always, and easily moved by frailty or sorrow.
Fiction book (1998) -
Sometimes all I see is the hatred and frailty... people's cruelty to one another... cruelty to themselves... and I realize... how lucky I am.
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They are more like Roman gods who had frailties and they love and hate and punish and get punished.
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Why publish such a depressing catalog of human frailties for no apparent purpose?
Academic text (2003)
Synonyms
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6.2
A bad habit or behaviour that harms a person's character
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1.4
Lack of physical or mental strength that makes someone less able to act
Antonyms
How Weak-Willed
- Offensive
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6.6
133
1.4
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Frailty comes from the Latin fragilis, which means 'easily broken', and the same root is in fragile and fracture, so moral frailty is like a will or character that can 'break' or fail under pressure.