peccadillo

"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

Yet Sir Walter Raleigh, or Sir Philip Sidney, might, perchance, have thought even such a trifling peccadillo not un-note-worthy.

From The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews by Henry Lunettes

The specter of a big electoral defeat makes Labour politicians more sensitive to Mr. Starmer’s peccadilloes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026

He obviously wants the world to remember and think of him as strong and resolute, and basically a good guy despite his personal peccadilloes.

From Salon ● Apr. 22, 2024

“Those are personal peccadilloes that you may have,” Scorsese incorrectly guesses.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2023

Whatever his peccadilloes, Mr. Anderson was a planning visionary.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 14, 2022

So when he appraised Sister Loretta Marie it was with eyes that had spent a lifetime studying the habits and peccadilloes of nuns.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

Others at Mr. Julian’s table gave similarly tolerant responses to my question about Mr. Paxton’s peccadillos.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026

He said he took particular issue with the use of the word "peccadillos".

From BBC ● Feb. 3, 2022

Hearing those decades-old recordings—voices crackling out of the past, disclosing peccadillos and airing guilty consciences—is an eerie experience, and you can understand why Bridge was transfixed by the thing he’d created.

From Slate ● Feb. 24, 2021

“The Secret Life of Pets” scooted by on premise alone, and with the sequel, animal lovers will adore the cutesy depictions of pet peccadillos.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2019

Hadn't somebody better wink At my peccadillos, if houses of glass Won't do to throw stones from at those who pass?

From The Wit of Women Fourth Edition by Kate Sanborn