How to Use peccadillo in a Sentence

peccadillo

noun

• The peccadilloes of royalty never go out of fashion, but Catherine -- with her tumultuous decades-long reign -- brings more intrigue to the party than most.
  — Brian Lowry, CNN, 21 Oct. 2019
• Their personal peccadilloes combined with their fawning attitude only enable them to come across as want to be ‘hep cats.’ That went away with Dobie Gillis.
  — Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 23 Apr. 2018
• Still, when measured against Mr. M’s sins, Tracy’s peccadilloes look pretty trivial.
  — New York Times, 27 Sep. 2017
• The particulars and peccadilloes from a coast become embedded in the tools that half of humanity now finds indispensable.
  — Alexis C. Madrigal, The Atlantic, 16 May 2017
• In exchange for these peccadilloes, listeners received two doses of pure excitement, two scenes in which zeal never flagged, the dramatic arch remained clear, and the orchestra displayed the full, glorious extent of its skill at high speed.
  — Zachary Lewis, cleveland.com, 16 July 2017
• Providing for your pets after you’re gone was once considered a peccadillo of the wealthy and the eccentric thanks to the occasional news story about a tabby that has inherited millions, or a Chihuahua who was left the family mansion.
  — Joan Morris, The Mercury News, 13 June 2017
• But even the president, who has frequently praised the agency's work under Pruitt, came to the conclusion that the former Oklahoma attorney general's professional achievements were not worth the steady media drip of Pruitt's personal peccadilloes.
  — Ledyard King, USA TODAY, 5 July 2018
• This intricately structured novel opens 30 years after the Salvadoran expedition and a decade beyond Pace’s Parisian peccadillo.
  — Walton Muyumba, latimes.com, 9 June 2017
• Due to his obsession with media relations and personal peccadilloes, Trump now has managed to undermine any chance of developing a coherent program to restore dynamism in Middle America.
  — Joel Kotkin, Orange County Register, 21 May 2017

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