FALLIBLY Synonyms: 47 Similar and Opposite Words

fallibly

adverb

as in imperfectly

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imperfectly

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But the legal system’s binary standard—sane and guilty, or insane and not—fits imperfectly with human intuitions about culpability in tragedies like the Clancys’.

— Eren Orbey, New Yorker, 30 July 2026
What kept her was the counselor who showed up imperfectly but consistently, who was unfinished and stayed anyway.

— Laide Alexander, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026

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fall (in)

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