peccadillo

Example Sentences

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"Scotland has one peccadillo and that is Cardinal O'Brien," he says.

From BBC • May 7, 2025

A love of disinformation is the peccadillo that springs from bigotry, not the other way around.

From Salon • Jul. 13, 2022

But at L.S.U., about the only unpardonable peccadillo is failing to win.

From New York Times • Oct. 18, 2021

That peccadillo aside, Cactus Cantina is my clear favorite Tex-Mex restaurant in Washington — it makes me feel at home.

From Washington Post • Aug. 9, 2017

It was as though Shakespeare, called to account for some such peccadillo as the Bohemian seaport, should answer magnificently that he was a poet.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 23 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis