Definitions for peccadillo
- a very minor or slight sin or offense; a trifling fault.
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Citations for peccadillo
She longed for some recognition by him, even if it took the form of accusing her of serious wrong-doing, that there were difficulties in their marriage that went deeper than his mother's displeasure over what was at most a peccadillo.
Public scandal broke in April 1937 over the maltreatment of a 19-year-old youth in a French reformatory. The boy, sentenced for a peccadillo, had been put for five months on a bread-and-water diet in a solitary cell without light, heat, ventilation or bed.
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