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fallible

/fal-uh-buhl/US // ˈfæl ə bəl //UK // (ˈfælɪbəl) //

易变的,易犯错误的,易犯错误,易错的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : liable to err, especially in being deceived or mistaken.
    • : liable to be erroneous or false; not accurate: fallible information.

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Examples

  • They are themselves impossible and wondrous, even if the people who deliver them to us are fallible and human and often fragile.

  • Kahneman and Tversky popularized the notion that decision makers rely on highly fallible mental shortcuts that can have dire consequences.

  • In D&D terms, they’re a high-level party, basically gods within the world of the story but still fallible.

  • West’s book shows the problems with appointing fallible human beings to offer succor to parishioners even as they battle their own demons — in Samuel’s case, irrepressible rage and hubris.

  • We are fallible, and where we are in error, the only explanations for those beliefs will be debunking ones.

  • A wine consumption map of the U.S. is as fallible as that wine map of Europe.

  • And anyway, if Brecht did not want us to feel for Mother Courage, why did he make her so richly shaded and humanly fallible?

  • In fairness, like glossies anywhere, French tabloids are fallible, prone to playing up alleged trysts that fall flat.

  • They reveal an altogether vulnerable, fallible person with ambition, passion, and doubt.

  • The masters of war, it turns out, are as fallible as the rest of us.

  • I shall therefore, in my effort to prove the Bible fallible, quote almost wholly from Christian critics.

  • With individual operations controlled by fallible men enormous waste is inevitable.

  • But to assume that human laws are above question, is to claim for their fallible authors infallibility.

  • The first assumption puts our Savior on the basis of a fallible human teacher, and nothing more.

  • Most of the figures are therefore carried over from winter to winter in the memories of fallible men.