peccadillo

Example Sentences

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"Scotland has one peccadillo and that is Cardinal O'Brien," he says.

From BBC • May 7, 2025

A minor peccadillo alongside the enormities rightly laid at the door of your man.

From New York Times • Oct. 14, 2022

A love of disinformation is the peccadillo that springs from bigotry, not the other way around.

From Salon • Jul. 13, 2022

That peccadillo aside, Cactus Cantina is my clear favorite Tex-Mex restaurant in Washington — it makes me feel at home.

From Washington Post • Aug. 9, 2017

And how is this to be done? why, by a little peccadillo of injustice.

From The Life of Benjamin Franklin With Many Choice Anecdotes and admirable sayings of this great man never before published by any of his biographers by Weems, Mason Locke