peccant 的定义
- sinning; guilty of a moral offense.
- violating a rule, principle, or established practice; faulty; wrong.
peccant 近义词
liable to sin
更多peccant例句
- 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.