Definition of At fault

1. Adjective. Deserving blame. "Admitted to being at fault"

Similar to: Guilty

Definition of At fault

1. Adjective. guilty, responsible, deserving blame ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of At Fault

at bats
at bay
at bay(p)
at best
at bottom
at call
at church every time the doors are open
at close range
at cost
at cross-purposes
at daggers drawn
at dark
at death's door
at ease
at ease(p)
at fault
at first
at first bluff
at first blush
at first glance
at first sight
at full speed
at full stretch
at full throttle
at full tilt
at gaze
at grade
at gunpoint
at hand
at hand(p)

Literary usage of At fault

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1885)
"The court below erred in hold- hig the steamer at fault on account of her rate of speed at the time of the collision. ..."

2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Edward Aloysius Pace (1922)
"By husband on Sunday, "the party at fault being (inns. By a decree of 10 April, 1913, the dignity should kiss his wife, and no wife should kiss her the ..."

3. History of the United States of America Under the Constitution by James Schouler (1913)
"... which I have traced through the session when they March- first confronted each other, was one in which both July- sides were now clearly at fault, ..."

4. Annual Report by Ohio State Board of Agriculture (1876)
"THK WHEAT-GROWING DIFFICULTY—CHEMICAL ANALYSES at fault. This matter is so important that I strongly recommend a perusal of the whole of chapter viii. in ..."

5. The Real Shelley: New Views of the Poet's Life by John Cordy Jeaffreson (1885)
"... I venture to think that Mr. Rossetti is at fault in this particular, having perhaps erred through reasonable reliance on the accuracy of Mr. Peacock, ..."

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