Thesaurus / peccant

peccant

How to use peccant in a sentence

This ultimate salvation of all mankind, and of all peccant spirits, is a conspicuous doctrine of Mr Bailey's.

The first was to observe strict "propriety" in her books—a point in which the novel had always been a little peccant.

Betty, not really knowing what she was doing, bent over the peccant milkman's book.

WHAT TIMMY DIDMARIE ADELAIDE BELLOC LOWNDES

It would be easy to crush up a peccant borough or two,—a borough that had been discovered in its sin.

PHINEAS FINNANTHONY TROLLOPE

This idea had occurred to Joe from his remembrance of a peccant hound in the grasp of a tyrant whip.

But it is useless and canting to say that peccant women are worse than men.

That the peccant material is to be eliminated gradually by mild remedies, just as it accumulated by degrees.

GILBERTUS ANGLICUSHENRY EBENEZER HANDERSON

Morbilli is a mild disease, but requires protection from cold, which confines and coagulates the peccant matter.

GILBERTUS ANGLICUSHENRY EBENEZER HANDERSON

For this reason I desired to divert the peccant matter downward, a point which the physician should consider and observe.

GILBERTUS ANGLICUSHENRY EBENEZER HANDERSON

Maisie looked at the peccant places; there were moments when it was a relief to her to drop her eyes even on anything so sordid.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985