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peccable

/pek-uh-buhl/US // ˈpɛk ə bəl //UK // (ˈpɛkəbəl) //

可怕的,可怕的是,可怕的人,可怕

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : liable to sin or error.

Examples

  • I will readily confess that the logic is, if not impeccable, only mildly peccable.

  • By acting on the advice of ‘evil and wicked councillors,’ it was declared that a peccable king had forfeited the throne.

  • A peccable monarch may forfeit his throne; an impeccable one can only abdicate it.

  • But peccable and rough though the members of this royal house may have been, very few of them were without the governing faculty.

  • He had hated Bassett for that; but it was not for the peccable Thatcher to point a mocking finger at Achilles's heel.

  • Or, to parody a line of Young, 'All men think all men peccable but themselves.'