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peccadillo

/pek-uh-dil-oh/US // ˌpɛk əˈdɪl oʊ //UK // (ˌpɛkəˈdɪləʊ) //

罪行,罪行清单,罪行的

Related Words

indiscretion失言,失言失语,失态,失言失态impropriety不当行为,不正当行为,不当,不恰当的行为misdemeanor轻罪,轻度,简易程序,低级趣味vice恶习,副业,恶行,恶习习faux pas走错路,走错一步,走错了一步,走错路了venial sin罪孽,罪过,罪孽深重,死罪

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural pec·ca·dil·loes, pec·ca·dil·los.

    • : a very minor or slight sin or offense; a trifling fault.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounsmall fault
Synonyms
impropriety不当行为,不正当行为,不当,不恰当的行为indiscretion失言,失言失语,失态,失言失态misdemeanor轻罪,轻度,简易程序,低级趣味vice恶习,副业,恶行,恶习习bad habit坏习惯,恶习,陋习,不好的习惯faux pas走错路,走错一步,走错了一步,走错路了minor fault小故障,小毛病,小错,轻微过失minor infraction轻度违章,轻度违纪,轻度违规,轻度违例minor sin小罪,小罪孽,小罪过,小罪行petty offense轻罪,轻度犯罪,轻微的违法行为,轻微犯罪slight transgression轻罪,小节,略有冒犯,轻视small infraction违章小事,小过失,违章小节,违例小事small sin小罪,小罪过,小罪孽,小孽venial sin罪孽,罪过,罪孽深重,死罪

Examples

  • 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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