How To Use Peccadillo In A Sentence
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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.
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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
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His peccadilloes finally broke his marriage
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In the glow of their log fire, fortified by coffee and cognac, I deliberately steered the conversation towards the peccadilloes of awkward neighbours.
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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
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It is an action between friends, just as my silence on the subject of your peccadillo is a friendly action.
The Gray Dawn
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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
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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.
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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
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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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When some brave souls pointed out that the peccadillo was a notoriously flightless bird they were hung, drawn and hacked up into bite-sized portions as a precaution.
Archive 2009-06-01
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It's true, and there are tons of similarly gossipy tales of women's sexual peccadilloes and the embarrassments of ambition.
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The depreciatory or vilificatory fashionable novel delights in exposing the peccadilloes, or imagined peccadilloes, (for it is all the same,) of young or old people of fashion: a gourmand peer, a titled demirep, a "desperate dandy," a black-leg, and a few such other respectable characters, are dialogued through the customary number of chapters, and conducted to the usual catastrophe: virtue is triumphant, vice abashed, towards the latter end of the last volume; and some low-born hero and heroine, introduced to exhibit, by contrast, the vices of the aristocracy, suddenly, and without any effort of their own, acquire large fortunes, perhaps titles, which it would have been just as easy to have given them at first—go to church in an orthodox manner, and set up a virtuous aristocracy of their own.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843
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It embraces humans in all their complexity: with their merits and sins, peculiarities and idiosyncrasies, passions and peccadilloes.
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Nick Clegg's U-turn on student fees is a trivial peccadillo compared with his infinitely more damaging U-turn on public spending.
The Coalition and the Constitution by Vernon Bogdanor – review
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The Ambassador didn't seem to view the matter very seriously, called it a peccadillo.
THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
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McGillion was masterful in hiding Ward's peccadilloes, including his three-day disappearance during the Palm Sunday Massacre.
Len Levitt: The Feds' Leak Investigation: Probe or Payback?
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An Islamic movement that upholds Islamic principles and values like Pas cannot afford to see that kind of peccadillo creeping into its workings.
Undefined
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They cannot figure out why a sexual peccadillo is given so much attention.
Think Progress » Seven years of war in Iraq.
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Over the years I have certainly committed somewhat more than my share of peccadilloes and outright sins.
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And besides, other nations, such as the French, don't get so worked up about the peccadilloes of the famous.
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For this peccadillo he was demoted and sent back to pound the beat.
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But rather all my insecurities and peccadilloes from the past came rushing back to haunt me.
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A serious lie is told to cover a minor peccadillo.
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He had told his ambassador, who seemed to regard it as a minor peccadillo, and didn't include it in his report back to London on Harry.
THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
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Rain, exposure at dewfall on the searocks, a peccadillo at my time of life.
Ulysses
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From the time they were boys, others have fawned over them, winked at their flaws, excused their peccadilloes.
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Suddenly stories about pop stars and their legal troubles or sexual peccadilloes were no longer relegated to the women's pages.
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To him no doubt more than one puisne judge, suffragan bishop, member of parliament, or cabinet minister today owe their careers, and each and every one of their youthful peccadilloes went with Arthur to his grave, which, incidentally, is under a pretty gum tree on the southeast side of the Bulpadock.
The Earth Goddess
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Her quest leads her into the clutches of others who are eager to use her to satisfy their own sexual peccadillos.
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The company also tries to find out about any client preferences beforehand - not their sexual peccadilloes, but things that might add more spice to the experience.
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She forgave her husband's sexual peccadilloes.
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For this peccadillo he was demoted and sent back to pound the beat.
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The excruciating embarrassment of finding one's personal peccadillos exposed to public scrutiny makes kiss-and-tell the perfect vengeance-fodder.
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(Soundbite of laughter) Ms. POUNDSTONE: I don't know, you know, I have a silly peccadillo which is that I call body parts by their names.
Panel Round Two
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But I'll never forget and I'll always be grateful for their savage, righteous fury when I told them how I discovered his first peccadillo.
THE SAVING GRACES
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She is known for racy novels and short stories about what she sees as the secret sexual peccadilloes of regular women - housewives, businesswomen, sorority sisters.
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For this peccadillo he was demoted and sent back to pound the beat.
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But I'll never forget and I'll always be grateful for their savage, righteous fury when I told them how I discovered his first peccadillo.
THE SAVING GRACES
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The Ambassador didn't seem to view the matter very seriously, called it a peccadillo.
THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
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The public is willing to forgive him for his peccadillos.
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He dismissed what had happened as a mere peccadillo.
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Since the satire routinely pillories the peccadilloes of public figures, Deayton's defrocking is entirely in keeping with the spirit of the show.
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For a time, the peccadillo reportedly cut in half her asking price for ad work.
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From time they were boys, others have fawned over them, winked at their flaws, excused their peccadilloes.
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The Times continues to treat communism as a cute campus peccadillo like pot smoking or nude streaking.
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » The Future of Newspapers
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Hanna does not overlook Britten's peccadilloes.
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History has usually forgiven presidents their sexual peccadilloes, and the list of American leaders who have been accused of sexual misconduct, in or out of office, is a long one.
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The interesting element of the game was that it required one to evaluate not films but people; that is, to sift through the prejudices of one’s movie-freak friends and the peccadilloes and quirks of the major reviewers, and by graphing, as it were, what each could be expected to overpraise, underpraise, revile, not notice, or deliberately ignore, one could acquire a very nice sense of the film.
Film flam
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Their sexual peccadillos, family differences and even flaws of personal character were commonly regarded as their own business, not the public's.
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He had told his ambassador, who seemed to regard it as a minor peccadillo, and didn't include it in his report back to London on Harry.
THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
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If those in government allow themselves to be intimidated into neutrality because they harbour private peccadilloes, they will sell the pass to the prophets of moral nihilism.
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True to its tabloid format, it has always been strong on exposure of their sexual peccadilloes, of which there are many.
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A series of minor government ministers was involved in a variety of sexual peccadilloes and had to resign.
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The heroine's honour is unjustly impugned, but her alleged crime is such a peccadillo that the emotions associated with it seem ludicrously overblown.
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They should be allowed the benefit of a doubt, and peccadilloes should be ignored; but when no doubt exists that a man was engrainedly mean and cowardly, his reputation must remain in the Purgatory of Time for a term varying from, say, a hundred to two thousand years.
Erewhon Revisited
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To him no doubt more than one puisne judge, suffragan bishop, member of parliament, or cabinet minister today owe their careers, and each and every one of their youthful peccadilloes went with Arthur to his grave, which, incidentally, is under a pretty gum tree on the southeast side of the Bulpadock.
The Earth Goddess
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After all, what usually makes the fans fanatics are those little peccadilloes that we never think make the difference in winning and losing...but why tempt fate right?
Joe Favorito: Scorecasting: A Good Read, Whether We Need It or Not
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News editors, TV executives, and publishers insist that the alleged foibles and peccadilloes of celebrities, even those that wear the mantle of the presidency, and now in the case of Michelle, their wives, are fair game for exposure.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson: Dumping on The Obamas
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Most peccadillos are as harmless as hobbies.
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That might result in a wholly different problem, of course, as overzealous regulators tried to make their bonuses by going after small-potatoes corporate peccadilloes, rather than spotting potentially systemic crises.
FCIC report: What if the SEC paid like Goldman Sachs?
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The public is willing to forgive him for his peccadillos.
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This title will first have caused painstaking inquiry into my past, the peccadillos and all.
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And how, exactly, do you sugarcoat the following as a "peccadillo":
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