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peccadillo

[ pek-uh-dil-oh ]

noun

, plural pec·ca·dil·loes, pec·ca·dil·los.
  1. a very minor or slight sin or offense; a trifling fault.

    Synonyms: indiscretion, faux pas, slip, lapse



peccadillo

/ ˌpɛkəˈdɪləʊ /

noun

  1. a petty sin or trifling fault
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of peccadillo1

1585–95; < Spanish pecadillo, diminutive of pecado sin < Latin peccātum transgression, noun use of neuter of past participle of peccāre to err, offend
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Word History and Origins

Origin of peccadillo1

C16: from Spanish pecadillo, from pecado sin, from Latin peccātum, from peccāre to transgress
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Example Sentences

Besides, the gift bag peccadillo is the least skeevy of Jeter's alleged bedroom behavior.

And yet Louisiana does not prohibit a far stranger peccadillo: sex with corpses.

Peccadillo, pek-a-dil′lo, n. a little or trifling sin: a petty fault:—pl.

In fact, homicide on the frontier, as compared with horse-stealing, is a peccadillo.

Already, he was a little too fond of his liquor—a peccadillo which attracted little attention in that age of the careless city.

Piracy, which ran in the Thanet blood, seemed to their good easy local annalist a regrettable peccadillo.

All the amendments, however, were adopted as early as 1753, except the correction of a grammatical peccadillo in the ninth stanza.

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