peccant

This ultimate salvation of all mankind, and of all peccant spirits, is a conspicuous doctrine of Mr Bailey's.

The first was to observe strict "propriety" in her books—a point in which the novel had always been a little peccant.

Betty, not really knowing what she was doing, bent over the peccant milkman's book.

It would be easy to crush up a peccant borough or two,—a borough that had been discovered in its sin.

This idea had occurred to Joe from his remembrance of a peccant hound in the grasp of a tyrant whip.