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Example sentences for "find fault"

  • They were so very sure that everything was just as it should be, and nothing short of treason would induce any one to find fault.

  • It is part of a system of imposition and it would be rank communism to find fault, so I remember him; he thanks me, and this little game of give and take ends.

  • The certificate showed that the young girl had left of her own free will, in order to return to France, and the only thing which they had had to find fault in her during her long period of service was a little French coquettishness.

  • Every day she used to find fault with my mild temper: 'I would not put up with this!

  • Again, there is a time not to find fault, and in the right perception of when that time is lies no small part of the art.

  • It is a very difficult thing to find fault well.

  • Apt to catch at faults; disposed to find fault or to cavil; eager to object; difficult to please.

  • To utter words of disapprobation and displeasure; to find fault; to contend angrily.

  • To rebuke; to reprove; to scold; to find fault with.

  • To charge with a fault; to accuse; to find fault with; to blame.

  • Peevish marks more especially the inward spirit: a peevish man is always ready to find fault.

  • To find fault with, to blame; to censure.

  • He told me confidentially that he was delighted to have me for chief; but that we should have a warm time on the coast as Ker hated me and would be sure to find fault.

  • Indeed, so far as I could judge, the whole staff of the Excellent had reached a standard of efficiency and excellence it would have been difficult to find fault with.

  • It was no part of my business either as a junior to find fault.

  • Captain Hemming, who felt very anxious on their account, was too glad to get them back to find fault.

  • The captain and supercargo may, but not the rest of the people, and that's what I find fault with," observed the skipper.

  • I don't find fault, but you'd hardly expect it, seeing how I play the same instrument as he do himself, and have done it for so many years longer than he.

  • I don't want to find fault, my dear, but I think as an adviser you will find me better than Jock.

  • Indeed, I did not mean to find fault," said Lucy.

  • I have not said a word on the subject since--of course I didn't come down here to enjoy your hospitality and then to find fault.

  • There is another unfortunate way of looking, which is peculiar to that amiable sex we do not like to find fault with.

  • It is easy to find fault with it for uniform respectability and occasional dulness.

  • But in consequence of That Boy's indiscretion, we were without a check upon our expansiveness, and ran on in the way you have observed and may be disposed to find fault with.

  • I will tell you, Euthymia, if you will promise not to find fault with me for carrying out my plan as I have made up my mind to do.

  • Inclined to criticise or find fault; fastidious; captious; censorious; exacting.

  • But who was ever found before, except Publius Clodius, to find fault with my consulship?

  • Nor should I find fault with "Scripsere alii rem.

  • You are at liberty to find fault with my conduct on those occasions if you can.

  • As a critic of acting he was naive and outspoken, and never hesitated to find fault if he thought it justifiable.

  • Now I'm going to find fault with my pet about her acting.

  • What's the good of an old Uncle like me except to find fault?

  • He was particularly inexhaustible in a comical representation of individual persons, as he found something to find fault with in the exterior of every one.

  • Now hypochondriacal fancies began to torment me, as if I attracted the attention of the people, as if their eyes were turned on my demeanor, to fix it on their memories, to scan and to find fault.

  • And if things must be represented, I see not what to find fault with in this.

  • If we were disposed to find fault with a useful work, we should describe it as over-liberal of condensed critical information.

  • In ancient and also in modern periods, we find a few Poets who are accounted perfect; whom it were a kind of treason to find fault with.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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