peccant

/pek-uhnt/US // ˈpɛk ənt //UK // (ˈpɛkənt) //

偏心,偏心眼,偏心眼儿,偏心的

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective

1
- : sinning; guilty of a moral offense.
- : violating a rule, principle, or established practice; faulty; wrong.

adj.liable to sin

Synonyms

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.