Crossword-Solution: FAULT 5 letters, 242 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

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Word Word Type Definition
Fault n. Defect; want; lack; default.
Fault n. Anything that fails, that is wanting, or that impairs
excellence; a failing; a defect; a blemish.
Fault n. A moral failing; a defect or dereliction from duty; a
deviation from propriety; an offense less serious than a crime.
Fault n. A dislocation of the strata of the vein.
Fault n. In coal seams, coal rendered worthless by impurities in the
seam; as, slate fault, dirt fault, etc.
Fault n. A lost scent; act of losing the scent.
Fault n. Failure to serve the ball into the proper court.
Fault v. t. To charge with a fault; to accuse; to find fault with; to
blame.
Fault v. t. To interrupt the continuity of (rock strata) by
displacement along a plane of fracture; -- chiefly used in the p. p.;
as, the coal beds are badly faulted.
Fault v. i. To err; to blunder, to commit a fault; to do wrong.

We have 242 clues for the answer “FAULT”

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"It's my __" (blame-taking phrase) 1 answer
"The ___ in Our Stars" (young adult novel) 1 answer
"This is all my ___!" 1 answer
Shortcoming or responsibility for a mistake 1 answer
Agassi mistake 1 answer
Blame game subject 1 answer
Cause for an underground movement 1 answer
Court goof 1 answer
Court official's call 1 answer
Crack in the crust 1 answer
Crack in the earth 1 answer
Crust crack 1 answer
Cry after a bad tennis serve 1 answer
DEFECT causing specified evil 1 answer
Defect, mistake 1 answer
Denali National Park sits on one 1 answer
Dislocation of a rock stratum. 1 answer
Earthquake line 1 answer
Earthquake-prone rift 1 answer
Earthshaking matter? 1 answer
Find a problem with 1 answer
Fracture in the earth's crust 1 answer
Geologic fracture 1 answer
Geological concern 1 answer
Geological fracture 1 answer
Geological rift 1 answer
Geologist's big break? 1 answer
Ground-breaking thing? 1 answer
It's commonly found 1 answer
No- ___ insurance 1 answer
PLACE where rock layers have fractured and moved out of alignment (geol.) 1 answer
Quake locale 1 answer
Quake site 1 answer
Quake spot 1 answer
Responsibility for a mistake 1 answer
San Andreas __ 1 answer
Seismological concern 1 answer
Seismologist's discovery 1 answer
Seismology concern 1 answer
Service error 1 answer
Service error, in tennis 1 answer
Serving slip 1 answer
Site of an earthquake 1 answer
Site of some seismic activity 1 answer
Source of an underground movement? 1 answer
Stepping on the baseline when serving in tennis, e.g. 1 answer
Tennis "misstep" 1 answer
Tennis no-no 1 answer
Tennis player's error 1 answer
Tennis serve in the wrong court. 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
The transparent part of the coat of the eyeball which covers the iris and pupil and admits light to the interior. See Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
COVER THE EYES
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Sentences with FAULT (5)

You will never carry the bottle in your mouth again, Nana, and it is all my fault.” Strong man though he was, there is no doubt that he had behaved rather foolishly over the medicine.
Peter Pan James M. Barrie 1991
They therefore as to right belongd, So were created, nor can justly accuse Thir maker, or thir making, or thir Fate; As if Predestination over-rul’d Thir will, dispos’d by absolute Decree Or high foreknowledge; they themselves decreed Thir own revolt, not I: if I foreknew, Foreknowledge had no influence on their fault, Which had no less prov’d certain unforeknown.
Paradise Lost John Milton 1991
The Hound, feeling much aggrieved at this, reproached his companion, saying, “It is very hard to have all this labor, while you, who do not assist in the chase, luxuriate on the fruits of my exertions.” The Housedog replied, “Do not blame me, my friend, but find fault with the master, who has not taught me to labor, but to depend for subsistence on the labor of others.” Children are not to be blamed for the faults of their parents.
Aesop’s Fables Aesop 2000
She is ever disposed to find fault with them; they can seldom do any thing to please her; she is never better pleased than when she sees them under the lash, especially when she suspects her husband of showing to his mulatto children favors which he withholds from his black slaves.
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass 1992
There are women who spread ruin around them through no fault of theirs, just by being too beautiful, too full of life and love.
O Pioneers! Willa Cather 1991

Quotes with FAULT (3)

He asked, 'Croesus, who told you to attack my land and meet me as an enemy instead of a friend?'The King replied, 'It was caused by your good fate and my bad fate. It was the fault of the Greek gods, who with their arrogance, encouraged me to march onto your lands. Nobody is mad enough to choose war whilst there is peace. During times of peace, the sons bury their fathers, but in war it is the fathers who send their sons to the grave.
Herodotus The Histories
To be pleasant, gentle, calm and self-possessed: this is the basis of good taste and charm in a woman. No matter how amorous or passionate you may be, as long as you are straightforward and refrain from causing others embarrassment, no one will mind. But women who are too vain and act pretentiously, to the extent that they make others feel uncomfortable, will themselves become the object of attention; and once that happens, people will find fault with whatever they say or do;…
Murasaki Shikibu The Diary of Lady Murasaki
There's always something when you're at fault, too, and that fault you must discover and learn to recognize and take the consequences of it.
Anne Holm I Am David
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Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, Onion, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 96 times in crossword archives (1954–2025).