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# failing

«failing» in Mova's school dictionary: **a fault or weakness in a person's character or behaviour** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (failings)

### meaning for a pupil

A failing is a fault or weakness in a person's character or behaviour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/failing/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in tales a hero or king has failings like pride or greed; in the lessons it names a weakness, not a sin

### examples

- Everyone has some failings. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/failing/#x1)
- Pride was his greatest failing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/failing/#x2)
- Be kind about the failings of others. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/failing/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### In the corpora

- [Kai changes his mind halfway through a book: that is not failing, it is reading well.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/19-prediction-what-happens-next/7/)
- ["Needs improvement", on a school report, means the work is poor or failing.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/33-failure-and-mistakes/15/)
- [Doing the same fix over and over rarely fixes anything; when the connection keeps failing, ask a grown-up.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/409-lag-crashes-and-blaming-the-wifi/15/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «failing» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/failing/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.