AT FAULT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does at fault mean? 

• AT FAULT (adjective)
  The adjective AT FAULT has 1 sense:

1. deserving blame

  Familiarity information: AT FAULT used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AT FAULT (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Deserving blame

Context example:

admitted to being at fault

Similar:

guilty (responsible for or chargeable with a reprehensible act)

 Context examples 

But it was only for a moment that we were at fault.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The county police are utterly at fault, said he, but perhaps your wider experience has suggested some conceivable explanation.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I had not qualities or talents to make my way very well in the world: I should have been continually at fault.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Ah! my dear Watson, there we come into those realms of conjecture, where the most logical mind may be at fault.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Sometimes, for an instant, it was at fault.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You were not yourself at fault at all, then?

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

By my faith, sirs, he continued, half turning in his saddle to address his escort, unless my woodcraft is sadly at fault, it is a stag of six tines and the finest that we have roused this journey.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“I thought you Londoners were never at fault. You don’t seem to be so very quick, after all.”

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Your witch's skill is rather at fault sometimes.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)