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peccadillo


  • n  a petty misdeed

  • Her most famous peccadillo was streaking through a cricket field while a very competitive match was in progress.
  • Last fall Jackson received a similar free ride about a far more minor peccadillo: his brief and ill-advised commercial endorsement of a chain of business schools.
  • Headstrong, undisciplined, sometimes self-righteous, he is a man who has a predilection for shooting himself in the foot over a principle--or a peccadillo.
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  • David Gardner in Rocky Mountain News
    Once all the messages are sorted through, the blow-back could range from "anything from a peccadillo, to something that leads to his ouster and even worse legal problems," said David Gardner, co-founder of The Motley Fool.

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