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peccadillo

[ UK /pˌɛkɐdˈɪlə‍ʊ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a petty misdeed

How To Use peccadillo In A Sentence

  • Affairs, infidelities, sexual peccadilloes fall generally outside the purview of inquisitive political eyes; at any rate, they do not make for fodder for a dirty election campaign.
  • He has his follies, I have mine; and the less either of us sees of the other's peccadilloes, the greater will be the honour and respect -- that, I think, is the proper phrase -- I say the _respect_ in which we shall hold each other. The Fortunes of Nigel
  • His peccadilloes finally broke his marriage
  • In the glow of their log fire, fortified by coffee and cognac, I deliberately steered the conversation towards the peccadilloes of awkward neighbours.
  • Though the figures are the size of a matchbook, they address our life-sized peccadilloes and imbroglios. James Scarborough: PHOTOS: 'Paint Tube People' Use Every Part Of The Paint Tube
  • It is an action between friends, just as my silence on the subject of your peccadillo is a friendly action. The Gray Dawn
  • It is not easy to render this term by a short and apt English term; "peccadillo" would come near the meaning. Luther Examined and Reexamined A Review of Catholic Criticism and a Plea for Revaluation
  • Don't imagine that this material comprised tame pictures of gartered ladies standing in front of cheese plants; any permutation or peccadillo you can conceive is represented in the work that has survived from the period.
  • Sexual "diversity" may be the civil rights issue of the future but most normal people wish they would get a life which revolves around something more than their own peccadilloes. Obama Heckled over Don't Ask Don't Tell
  • Tabloid newspapers have always printed tawdry tales of public figures' peccadilloes, but it hasn't dominated discussion in the same way.
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