A defect; failing; a moral delinquency, fault, offence, crime; rarely, a natural blemish. to give the lack of: to impute the fault of. Obsolete.

Moral fault or defect (without implication of serious wrongdoing); a flaw in character or conduct.

A non-physical flaw, a defect of character or quality; esp. a personal failing or imperfection. Cf. fault, n. 3a. Now rare.

A defect, imperfection, blameable quality or feature. in moral character. (Expressing a milder censure than vice.)

With an and plural. A weakness, flaw, defect in a person's character.

figurative.

A defect, imperfection, fault, blemish. in immaterial things, and figurative.

A defect, fault, shortcoming, weakness.

transferred and figurative.

A failure or neglect of duty; a violation of a rule or code of conduct; spec. a failure to pay a debt or tax. More generally: a failing, a…

figurative. (Cf. French tare defect, vice, blemish.)

Failure to come up to a standard of excellence or to fulfil a duty; a defect. (Chiefly in plural).