(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.
Infallible
Definition:
(a.) Not fallible; not capable of erring; entirely exempt from liability to mistake; unerring; inerrable.
(a.) Not liable to fail, deceive, or disappoint; indubitable; sure; certain; as, infallible evidence; infallible success; an infallible remedy.
(a.) Incapable of error in defining doctrines touching faith or morals. See Papal infallibility, under Infallibility.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was a waspish summary in which he noted that, while Pope Francis "may have renounced his own infallibility", Margaret Thatcher never did.
(2) I asked if that would not make life easier, since it removed any issue of the author's infallibility?
(3) And yet many newspapers do persist in pretending they are largely infallible."
(4) The bleeding time is not an infallible indication of aspirin or other non steroidal antiinflammatory drugs platelet defect.
(5) Although these criteria are helpful in most instances, they are not infallible.
(6) Countless Americans believe in a purity and infallibility of our right to bear arms, and therefore are quick to find fault with those who misuse the right.
(7) However, these physiologic measurements are not infallible; their accuracy is largely dependent on the careful set-up and use of the measuring instruments.
(8) Testing hearing in baby clinics was easy to implement and economical but not infallible.
(9) The electrocardiogram was invaluable, though by no means infallible.
(10) Current imaging techniques are not infallible and cannot confer an absolute sense of security when seeming to indicate a nonextruded protruding disk.
(11) The results suggest that, although far from infallible, CA 125 is a useful marker for ovarian cancer.
(12) People have come to believe that doctors should never make mistakes and courts have reinforced this absurd requirement of infallibility by punishing breaches with settlements way out of proportion to actual damages".
(13) We conclude that a long acting glucocorticoid is useful in the management of menstrual abnormalities in adolescent patients with congenital adrenal hyperplasia who have attained their adult height, and that monitoring the concentration of serum T in them is a valuable but not infallible procedure for assessing the effectiveness of therapy.
(14) He continued to write about art, but related it more closely to his personal experience, and though he never ceased to believe in the perfectibility of society, he edged towards an understanding of Marxism as an analytical tool rather than an infallible cure for the ills of the world.
(15) And yet many newspapers do persist in pretending they are largely infallible.
(16) He has a vast and devoted following of people who do not question his infallibility.
(17) Our knowledge of the wrist is incomplete, and our diagnostic tools are not infallible, but we must continue to try to sort out these difficult wrist problems.
(18) Although there is no infallible method of avoiding interpretive errors it is suggested that the development of good viewing habits, including an orderly and systematic appraisal of each film, coupled with a physiologically oriented approach to film interpretation will reduce mistakes significantly.
(19) Even then, it was obvious that Facetti had a prodigious knowledge of art history and an infallible instinct for the way a single image might capture the essence of a book.
(20) The first is that King and Trichet, eminent though they may be, are not infallible.