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peccadillo

[pek-uh-dil-oh] / ˌpɛk əˈdɪl oʊ /


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

From BBC • May 7, 2025

Yet he is likely soon to be sworn in, admitting only to the peccadillo of “résumé embellishment” when really what he seems to have done is “made up almost everything about his biography.”

From Washington Post • Jan. 4, 2023

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

But had he not atoned for this peccadillo fifty-fold by the results of his absence?

From Short Stories of the New America Interpreting the America of this age to high school boys and girls by Various




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