(n.) The state of being fallible; liability to deceive or to be deceived; as, the fallibity of an argument or of an adviser.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ultimately, we are fallible and forgetful, so the best way to solve the problem is as always choice-editing or design this inconvenience out.
(2) The retroperitoneum was the most common site of an occult primary tumour and its careful examination therefore crucial: computed tomography scanning was found least fallible in this respect in the present series.
(3) We should appreciate then that this continues to be an Arsenal team in the shadow of their prolonged fallibility.
(4) This presentation will discuss the fallibility of this important sign in the evaluation of a retropharyngeal abscess in children.
(5) Some remarks on the fallibility of X-ray diagnosis are included.
(6) Second is the reality of our necessary fallibility and how we cope effectively with the fact that our knowledge is always limited.
(7) By his own lofty standards Cavendish's return of two stage wins from this year's Tour has been paltry and myriad signs of hitherto unseen fallibility, a team that is clearly not good enough to work in his service and suggestions that his star is on the wane will leave him with much to ponder.
(8) Personal experience would therefore appear to point to the total fallibility of the clinical diagnosis of deep venous thrombosis of the lower extremities and the consequent need for a constant objective instrumental diagnostic approach to this type of pathology.
(9) Considering the risks and fallibility of anticysticercal therapy, the real solution for this serious disease continues to be prophylaxis of infestation.
(10) It was a migraine-inducing reminder of this team's fallibility, a position of relative authority having been surrendered wastefully; even attempts to salvage a point were rather unconvincing and laced with panic.
(11) IWF's blacklist lacks this fundamental check on its own fallibility.
(12) The new consensus is that we are badly designed, intrinsically fallible, vulnerable to a host of hostile influences.
(13) Unfortunately many physicians are unfamiliar with the different venous disorders and are unaware of the fallibility of the clinical diagnosis of these syndromes.
(14) Linked with a self-deprecating acknowledgement that our own fallibility and imperfection is likely to be exposed, we at least introduce a modicum of suspicion to our consumption of dominant media and political narratives.
(15) Feminism is doing just fine, in its stumbling, fallible way, and one of its strengths is that it is making real efforts to include women who were overlooked by its earlier incarnations.
(16) America, as John Ford cannily observed in his western The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, is a country that likes to build up its heroes and villains and rarely appreciates having the record corrected to restore them to the stature of ordinary, fallible human beings.
(17) An autopsy study was performed to quantify diagnostic fallibility in clinical surgery.
(18) It would be outrageous for a general election result to be skewed by a fallible registration process.
(19) Recent investigations have shown that the widely used clonidine suppression test is sometimes fallible for the diagnosis of pheochromocytoma.
(20) The miracle is starting to look more and more fallible as it slumps under heavy corporate debts and an over-construction spree which shall never again be replicated in our lifetimes or that of our children.
Fallible
Definition:
(a.) Liable to fail, mistake, or err; liable to deceive or to be deceived; as, all men are fallible; our opinions and hopes are fallible.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ultimately, we are fallible and forgetful, so the best way to solve the problem is as always choice-editing or design this inconvenience out.
(2) The retroperitoneum was the most common site of an occult primary tumour and its careful examination therefore crucial: computed tomography scanning was found least fallible in this respect in the present series.
(3) We should appreciate then that this continues to be an Arsenal team in the shadow of their prolonged fallibility.
(4) This presentation will discuss the fallibility of this important sign in the evaluation of a retropharyngeal abscess in children.
(5) Some remarks on the fallibility of X-ray diagnosis are included.
(6) Second is the reality of our necessary fallibility and how we cope effectively with the fact that our knowledge is always limited.
(7) By his own lofty standards Cavendish's return of two stage wins from this year's Tour has been paltry and myriad signs of hitherto unseen fallibility, a team that is clearly not good enough to work in his service and suggestions that his star is on the wane will leave him with much to ponder.
(8) Personal experience would therefore appear to point to the total fallibility of the clinical diagnosis of deep venous thrombosis of the lower extremities and the consequent need for a constant objective instrumental diagnostic approach to this type of pathology.
(9) Considering the risks and fallibility of anticysticercal therapy, the real solution for this serious disease continues to be prophylaxis of infestation.
(10) It was a migraine-inducing reminder of this team's fallibility, a position of relative authority having been surrendered wastefully; even attempts to salvage a point were rather unconvincing and laced with panic.
(11) IWF's blacklist lacks this fundamental check on its own fallibility.
(12) The new consensus is that we are badly designed, intrinsically fallible, vulnerable to a host of hostile influences.
(13) Unfortunately many physicians are unfamiliar with the different venous disorders and are unaware of the fallibility of the clinical diagnosis of these syndromes.
(14) Linked with a self-deprecating acknowledgement that our own fallibility and imperfection is likely to be exposed, we at least introduce a modicum of suspicion to our consumption of dominant media and political narratives.
(15) Feminism is doing just fine, in its stumbling, fallible way, and one of its strengths is that it is making real efforts to include women who were overlooked by its earlier incarnations.
(16) America, as John Ford cannily observed in his western The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, is a country that likes to build up its heroes and villains and rarely appreciates having the record corrected to restore them to the stature of ordinary, fallible human beings.
(17) An autopsy study was performed to quantify diagnostic fallibility in clinical surgery.
(18) It would be outrageous for a general election result to be skewed by a fallible registration process.
(19) Recent investigations have shown that the widely used clonidine suppression test is sometimes fallible for the diagnosis of pheochromocytoma.
(20) The miracle is starting to look more and more fallible as it slumps under heavy corporate debts and an over-construction spree which shall never again be replicated in our lifetimes or that of our children.