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Six example sentences with peccadillo, each labelled with its topic.
The scandal turned out to be a peccadillo about expensed taxi rides, and voters forgot it within a fortnight.
Politics
Austen builds three chapters on one peccadillo: a letter opened without permission and never mentioned again by either sister.
Literature
Auditors flagged a peccadillo, a manager who padded a mileage claim by nine dollars, and buried it in an appendix.
Business
The judge dismissed the case as a peccadillo, a parking violation that had somehow reached a courtroom after two appeals.
Law
Being three minutes late to shootaround is a peccadillo, but the coach still fined the rookie fifty dollars.
Basketball
The comedy turns on a peccadillo, a borrowed umbrella never returned, that grows into a feud between two neighbors.
Movies
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