Blight
Fault
Fault noun - Something that spoils the appearance or completeness of a thing.
Usage example: the minor faults in the leather are entirely natural and are what gives it a look different from vinyl
Mutual synonyms
How words are described
| full | full blight | full fault |
| complete | complete blight | complete fault |
| original | original blight | original fault |
| single | single blight | single fault |
| Other adjectives: powerful, real, bad, potential, social, new, past, radioactive. | ||
Common collocations
| life | blight life | fault life |
Both words in one sentence
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It's the Wardens' fault because them raising their own army to fight the Blight he wasn't fighting meant it was somehow their fault he stretched his forces too thin and needed the money.
Source: Never My Fault -
While Gamlen is at fault for losing the estate and money, Leandra and her children are living in his hovel, and wouldn't have even set foot in Kirkwall had it not been for the Blight.
Source: Video Game / Dragon Age II -
The only real blight on his record was his agreement to withdraw the UN peacekeeping forces from the Sinai in the leadup to the Six-Day War; however, that wasn't entirely his fault, and in any case that entire war was an embarrassing farce for nearly everyone involved.
Source: Useful Notes / United Nations
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