peccadillo

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synonyms for peccadillo

On this page you'll find 24 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to peccadillo, such as: impropriety, indiscretion, misdemeanor, vice, bad habit, and faux pas.

How to use peccadillo in a sentence

  • In fact, homicide on the frontier, as compared with horse-stealing, is a peccadillo.

    Frontier Folk | George Booth
  • Already, he was a little too fond of his liquor—a peccadillo which attracted little attention in that age of the careless city.

    The Readjustment | Will Irwin
  • Piracy, which ran in the Thanet blood, seemed to their good easy local annalist a regrettable peccadillo.

    Science in Arcady | Grant Allen
  • All the amendments, however, were adopted as early as 1753, except the correction of a grammatical peccadillo in the ninth stanza.

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