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

From Salon • Jul. 13, 2022

But at L.S.U., about the only unpardonable peccadillo is failing to win.

From New York Times • Oct. 18, 2021

This trifling peccadillo caused me to lose that place; there are people whose minds—I should say, whose behinds—are so ill-fashioned!

From San-Cravate; or, The Messengers; Little Streams by Kock, Charles Paul de




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