peccadillo

1 Despite those peccadilloes, goats are, for the most part, tolerant of humans.

2 He has ousted five inspectors general, including one looking into Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's alleged peccadillos.

3 But along with the gift she has a question: did he keep his promise to have “no more extracurricular romances, no more peccadilloes” while she was on tour?

4 That being said, I would never plan such a trip for people whose preferences and peccadilloes I didn’t know so well; the potential for catastrophic error is too high.

5 Sadly, performance and build quality didn’t live up to the promise, and fewer than 9,000 units were made by the time the entire operation was shuttered following John DeLorean’s white-powder peccadillo.

6 And besides just hanging on, that seemed to be the work of the musher: managing the team, their energy and peccadilloes.

7 A love of disinformation is the peccadillo that springs from bigotry, not the other way around.

8 But at L.S.U., about the only unpardonable peccadillo is failing to win.

9 Yet the Biden Justice Department remains indifferent, as if the issue were merely the personal peccadillos of the president’s ne’er-do-well son, Hunter.

10 These are small and maybe meaningless concessions, especially in a world where Mr. Bieber is steady tabloid grist, and all his peccadilloes are a Google search away.

11 It’s Levy’s openness to the quirks and peccadilloes of others — including her best male friend, headed into his third divorce after a dalliance with a much younger woman — that makes Levy’s work so invigorating.

12 Some have taken a seat and suddenly confessed to sexual peccadilloes; others have fallen into rapt silence.

13 Never before had the rituals, quirks and peccadilloes of young Italians, or Italianates, been given such a bullhorn.

14 He’s simply been willing to overlook a peccadillo or two if the guy’s good enough.

15 Nor is it clear how much lawmakers will press Mr. Cummings on Mr. Johnson’s personal peccadilloes.

16 Despite many reports of early peccadilloes on Philip’s part — hidden from public view with the help of cooperative newspaper barons — their bonds endured, a throwback to earlier decades of more durable relationships.

17 Moviegoing is a social act, and other people — their peccadilloes and sometimes their perversions — have always been part of the cinematic experience, as anyone who frequented the good old, bad old Times Square remembers.

18 For a time, the peccadillo reportedly cut in half her asking price for AD work.

犯下小小疏失，有一阵子，据传她的广告方面的身价削减了一半。

19 But in hindsight, his personal failings and peccadillos pale in comparison with the tectonic impact he has had on American society.

20 Two years ago, “The Good Wife,” a CBS drama, opened with a familiar tableau: a politician apologizing for sexual peccadilloes.

1 小过失

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2 过失

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3 犯规

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4 轻罪

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