| The heroine's honour is unjustly impugned, but her alleged crime is such a peccadillo that the emotions associated with it seem ludicrously overblown. |
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| The Tories are therefore now drawing attention to every little peccadillo that might embarrass the present government. |
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| Shortly after the commencement of proceedings, Irene apparently discovered Ernst's little peccadillo and was not amused. |
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| I'm making the biggest decision of my life and you reduce it to a mere peccadillo. |
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| Besides, the gift bag peccadillo is the least skeevy of Jeter's alleged bedroom behavior. |
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| Failing to declare work is no mere peccadillo. |
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| Absolutely clear is the fact that neither the production of plagiarism nor the trade with it are seen as a peccadillo even if society thinks differently sometimes. |
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| Often this illegal trade is still perceived as a sort of peccadillo. |
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| This artistic peccadillo of Handel's is a well-established fact, and his practice was also known to many of his contemporaries, though he never acknowledged it himself. |
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| In Mr Toledo's time, the main peccadillo has merely been nepotism, which has claimed two ministers in six weeks. In this section Looking south, north or both? |
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| As soon as the press appears to be bearing down on some peccadillo, such as Mr Bush's possible youthful use of cocaine, the public seems to switch off, and commentators rush to defend the accused by saying it does not matter. |
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| But if a few stock characters and a contrived peccadillo are what it takes in order to exaggerate and deflate the pretensions of America's future ruling class in such hilarious style, so be it. |
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| The mayor claims that, in contrast to the far more egregious sins of some of his opponents, this is a mere peccadillo which they are seeking to exploit to eliminate him from the presidential race. |
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