peccadillo

Domain: Universal Words

Part of speech: noun

(plural peccadilloes or peccadillos) (written) a small unimportant thing that sb does wrong: She forgave her husband's sexual peccadilloes.

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This is a English–English dictionary entry.

Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.

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peccadilloEnglish›ChineseMain Dictionary peccadilloEnglish›UyghurMain Dictionary peccadilloEnglish›ChineseGetWord Corpus

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