peccant

Many of these eruptions are considered of a critical and salutary nature; and the ancients fancied that nature relieved herself by throwing upon the surface some “peccant humours.”

Was a crusade to be preached, for the annihilation of the peccant race?

Is it not always humiliating to be treated like a peccant school-boy?

Landlord and maidens must be instantly released with full apologies, with substantial damages in the future, which should be extorted from the pay of the truculent and peccant braves.

Nor did the peccant Lieutenant James think it worth while to resign his commission.