peccadilloes

Noun

The word is derived from peccadillo

Examples

All the seven deadly sins are peccadilloes but without three of them, Pride, Lust, and Sloth, poetry might never have been born. Vladimir Nabokov

If you had enough money, you could hardly commit crimes at all. You just perpetrated amusing little peccadilloes. Terry Pratchett

I was expecting Pop Bassett to give an impersonation of a bomb falling on an ammunition dump, but he didn't. Instead, he continued to exhibit that sort of chilly stiffness which you see in magistrates when they're fining people five quid for boyish peccadilloes. P. G. Wodehouse

Peccadilloes at home, deadly sins abroad. Hungarian Proverb

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