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a peculiar behavioral trait in an individual — perhaps a weakness, but never important

He sang Lord Robert to sleep every night, and tweaked the noses of Lady Lysa's suitors with verses that made mock of their foibles.
George R.R. Martin -- A Storm of Swords

She didn't know all my foibles and shortcomings.
Gillian Flynn -- Gone Girl
For all of Mum's foibles, she didn't mistake sludge for coffee.
Henry H. Neff -- The Maelstrom
Everybody knew of Gawaine's foible.
T. H. White -- The Once and Future King
We all have our little foibles, and mine is the prompt settling of accounts.
E.M. Forster -- A Room With A View
K. took this to be just a foible of the painter's, and it irritated him as it made him lose time.
Franz Kafka -- The Trial
Surely I don't have to remind you that our professional duty is not to our own foibles and sentiments, but to the wishes of our employer.
Kazuo Ishiguro -- The Remains of the Day
I don't choose to discuss scandal out loud: A woman laughs at these masculine foibles, And never plagues her mate with paltry troubles.
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin Moliere -- Tartuffe
Now that was tact, for two of the ruling foibles of the masculine mind were touched.
Louisa May Alcott -- Little Women
Marguerite Blakeney was, above all, a woman, with all a woman's fascinating foibles, all a woman's most lovable sins.
Baroness Orczy -- The Scarlet Pimpernel
But that foible his father had of increasing his age to magnify his guilt had long ago become familiar to him.
Henry Roth -- Call It Sleep
Most Loonies ignored them and granted them their foibles.
Robert A. Heinlein -- The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
They made up for the respect with which unconsciously they treated him by laughing at his foibles and lamenting his vices.
W. Somerset Maugham -- Of Human Bondage
While she has been doing all these things, you no doubt have been observing her failings and foibles and deciding what effect they have had on her opinions.
Virginia Woolf -- A Room of One's Own
You select great materials; the foibles, the afflictions of human nature, the peculiarities of nations!
Henry James -- The Portrait of a Lady - Volume 1
So she headed toward Cop Central, rested, well fed, and in her newly repaired vehicle, which in under five blocks decided to surprise her with a new foible.
J.D. Robb -- Immortal in Death
He knew that this was like the sudden impulse of a madman—incongruous even with his habitual foibles.
George Eliot -- Middlemarch
You select great materials; the foibles, the afflictions of human nature, the peculiarities of nations!
Henry James -- The Portrait of a Lady - Volumes 1 & 2
She worked with too many therapists, saw that they were human, full of foibles, in need of help themselves.
Amy Tan -- The Bonesetter's Daughter
Catherine feared, as she listened to their discourse, that he indulged himself a little too much with the foibles of others.
Jane Austen -- Northanger Abbey

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