What's the difference between fallibility and faultlessness?

Fallibility


Definition:

  • (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.

Faultlessness


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The best advertisement for the format came four hours before the final even started, when, in ITV1's coverage of the FA Cup Final, the teenager Faryl Smith, a 2008 runner-up, sang the national anthem solo and faultlessly in front of a full crowd at Wembley.
  • (2) He has shown giant dignity, and like all of us he may not be faultless but he's certainly fearless.
  • (3) Thus, the two groups of pathogenic E. coli are both composed of a limited number of clones for which the O:K:H serotypes are excellent, although not faultless, markers.
  • (4) This should not lead to the neglect of certain basic principles: a faultless technique including the highest security standards without neglecting the psychological aspect.
  • (5) Cooke provided introductions from 1971 until he retired in 1992, at the age of 84, disdaining the tele-prompt as he always had, and speaking faultlessly from memory.
  • (6) But while more competitive rates are starting to emerge at higher LTVs, you still need a faultless credit history if you are to secure a loan.
  • (7) Our experience confirms the value of the Whittaker test as well as the need for a faultless technique.
  • (8) Third, the absorbed sera were proved to be not faultless, because complete specificity toward protoplasts from S. pyogenes was not attained due to the presence of a large amount of cross-reactive antigens between protoplasts from the immunizing and absorbing strains of bacteria.
  • (9) Faultless surgery, device function and the regimen of pumping are essential factors in every long-term experiment, just as in clinical application.
  • (10) Their faultless reasoning, as Perkins recently explained, was: “Why would you want to do a show about cakes?” What changed their minds, she said, was the chance to revisit the double act.
  • (11) 2.50am BST Spurs 31-20 Heat, 9:25 remaining, 2nd quarter Norris Cole, one of the Heat role players that's been mostly faultless this series, makes a two-pointer.
  • (12) The prior conditions of a correct primary therapy on the place of the accident are a faultless organisation of the life guard service and a high level of medical treatment.
  • (13) He emerged from more than two years of segregation with faultless psychological examinations.
  • (14) Sam Tomkins, who had been at the centre of most pre-match attention before his big-money move to the New Zealand Warriors, was faultless, but mostly unspectacular.
  • (15) Deaner said the London response had been "faultless: one thing after another just went right."
  • (16) "I lay no claim to having been a perfect man who has led a faultless life, and never have, but I am a better man for the experiences of the past 50 years, a period in which I spent over three-quarters of my life trying to honestly maintain my family and myself as best I could.
  • (17) "We have years of experience in dealing with the changes in ad break patterns when games go into extra time and sometimes penalties - this we have done faultlessly through the Champions League, World Cup and European Championships.
  • (18) In my rough travelling suit, the uniform of a private, I must have contrasted very strangely with a man so handsomely dressed, six feet high and of faultless form.
  • (19) The radiologist is urged to 1) conduct his practice in as faultless a manner as possible; and 2) exercise his right to respond to proposals of the federal regulatory agencies.
  • (20) In case of a strictly executed indication and a faultless irradiation technique, irradiation damages can be avoided.

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