peccant

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Hon. Alfred Duff Cooper, impeccable British Ambassador to France, gave a peccant Riviera innkeeper a nice demonstration of the retort diplomatic.

From Time Magazine Archive

Along came the garbage-wagon; the garbageman hoisted case, Mary Kascmarek & all, into the peccant swill.

From Time Magazine Archive

The impeccable Jeeves and the peccant Bertie Wooster, P.G.'s most famous characters, do not figure in these stories.

From Time Magazine Archive

Chiefest and best known among his peccant intimates of those stormy days was the lady known as "Claire", a Highland lass, actually named Kate Drummond, "slim and dark, very trim and neat, with jet-black hair."

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If it turned out that the paraffin was the peccant element, I should be, entre nous, rather glad, because it diminished the facility of the work.

From The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton Volume II by Barrington, Mrs. Russell