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.