peccadilloes
Example Sentences
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It’s not unusual for rumors about financial, sexual or other peccadilloes to attend a campaign.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2026
Unfashionably for a modern biographer, Mr. Cobb makes only very brief and glancing reference to these peccadilloes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 4, 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
