peccadillo
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"Scotland has one peccadillo and that is Cardinal O'Brien," he says.
From BBC ● May 7, 2025
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
The armadillo is found in Washington, D.C., only at the zoo, while the peccadillo is constantly being discovered.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 16, 2018
However, after a certain amount of journalistic jubilation when the award went against us, our cousins overseas charitably allowed the memory of our peccadillo to accumulate dust.
From The Unpopular Review, Number 19 July-December 1918 by Various
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
It’s not unusual for rumors about financial, sexual or other peccadilloes to attend a campaign.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 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
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
But in hindsight, his personal failings and peccadillos pale in comparison with the tectonic impact he has had on American society.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 2, 2021
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
As a matter of fact, I have dealt far too leniently with the peccadillos of the ornithological systematist.
From Birds of the Indian Hills by Dewar, Douglas
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