What's the difference between immaculate and impeccable?

Immaculate


Definition:

  • (a.) Without stain or blemish; spotless; undefiled; clear; pure.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Estonia had been reduced to 10 men early in the second half yet Hodgson’s men had to toil away for another 25 minutes before the goal, direct from Wayne Rooney’s free-kick, that soothed their mood and maintained their immaculate start to this qualifying programme.
  • (2) Sitting opposite her as she eats croissants and fixes on espresso it is hard to equate the immaculate perfection of Guillem the performer, in bobbed wig and suspenders last night, with the awkwardly engaging and somewhat bed-headed Guillem in skinny jeans and T-shirt this morning.
  • (3) Monáe sits with her back to me on a high stool, jacket removed, braces crisscrossed over an immaculate white shirt.
  • (4) Twitter hashtags were created in outrage, delivering predictable media attention to the first lady’s hair, immaculate as ever though it was.
  • (5) Immacule lost her entire family in a Hutu attack, surviving by lying beneath their bodies.
  • (6) Villanova head coach Jay Wright said it “was one of the great college basketball games we’ve ever been a part of.” The immaculately tailored and impeccably polite 54-year-old has been in charge of the Wildcats since 2001 and this was his first final.
  • (7) But if you want to stay in the area, the king of Turkish ocakbasi restaurants that dominate this part of town is Gokyuzu & Kervan , serving immaculately grilled lamb, meze salads and turnip juice.
  • (8) At the Asphalt Paving Services warehouse, down the road from St Paul’s, the lawn is immaculately, precisely cut.
  • (9) Night-time in Búzios is when its cobbled and immaculately manicured central area really comes alive.
  • (10) There’s nothing flash or trendy about it, just an immaculate, traditionally brewed, higher alcohol stout; a reminder that, for all the cool stuff going on in the beer world today, you can always learn from the past.
  • (11) As kick-off at the Al-Ahli stadium approaches, a rust-coloured moon rises in the sky and a few rich Qataris in immaculate robes settle into their air-conditioned executive boxes.
  • (12) De Bruyne’s finish was immaculate, picking out the bottom corner after Fernandinho’s layoff, and City were left to bask in the warm afterglow of their finest European night of the modern era.
  • (13) He lived alone in Maida Vale, in an immaculate flat, which, he told me, he always cleaned himself.
  • (14) Pastoral care will continue to be offered, though not a mass, on Sunday evenings at Farm Street Church of the Immaculate Conception in Mayfair, central London, when the new arrangements come into force during Lent, from mid-February, in the run-up to Easter, Nichols said in a statement on Wednesday.
  • (15) City's record at home in the league this season is immaculate and reads P18 W17 D1 L0 F52 A10.
  • (16) Immaculately dressed, wreathed in smoke, he sees through everyone and everything: “I am nobody’s fool.” His stature is in all senses overwhelming.
  • (17) "This seat is key for us, and it's going to be very, very tight," confessed the Conservative candidate, Deborah Dunleavy, immaculate in a dog's-tooth grey two-piece, as her leader bounced energetically up in tie and shirtsleeves to greet the assembled (and, swore the Warburtons PR man, entirely non-selected) group of employees.
  • (18) In spite of immaculate surgical technique conventional transduodenal sphincterotomy is attended by a non-lethal complication rate of about 5.8% and a mortality rate of about 4.5%, the most frequent cause being dehiscence of the duodenal suture.
  • (19) There is little sign that the country faces yet another fateful election next Sunday, except for a couple of posters in support of the ruling Justice and Development party, or AKP, and a solitary election van trundling through the streets blaring AKP’s campaign messages through the rows of immaculate yellow and beige housing blocks.
  • (20) Servillo plays bon vivant socialite Jep Gambardella, a Rome playboy who wrote a fine novel in his youth but has since devoted himself to immaculate indolence.

Impeccable


Definition:

  • (a.) Not liable to sin; exempt from the possibility of doing wrong.
  • (n.) One who is impeccable; esp., one of a sect of Gnostic heretics who asserted their sinlessness.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) So when I tell you that Gibson picked me up in his car from my hotel in Vancouver, so I didn’t even have to get a taxi – and indeed that he was impeccably hospitable and generous over the ensuing 24 hours – you might think: “How awfully convenient that this lifelong hero of Beauman’s, whom he is clearly desperate to be friends with, should happen to be a really nice guy.” Yes, I agree, it is awfully convenient, but sometimes things just turn out that way.
  • (2) The naval confrontation was the most serious incident between the two navies since 2009, when Chinese ships and planes repeatedly harassed the US ocean surveillance vessel USNS Impeccable in the South China Sea.
  • (3) Photograph: Fox Searchlight Stylish neckwear The design of The Grand Budapest Hotel is perhaps Anderson’s most ambitious effort yet and, true to impeccable form, the neckwear is not found wanting.
  • (4) Yet the enemy of the bourgeoisie is impeccably bourgeois, and when I arrived for our meeting at a swanky hotel near the Arc de Triomphe, I found Haneke – just off a flight from Vienna, where he lives – tucking into a luxurious lunch in the restaurant.
  • (5) 2007 Branson confirms his impeccable timing, selling 125 Megastores – the heirs of his original modest Oxford Street venture – to Zavvi for £1.
  • (6) But the interesting thing about Ronson is that for all his celebrity friends, his manners are consistently impeccable, whomever he happens to be speaking to.
  • (7) Villanova head coach Jay Wright said it “was one of the great college basketball games we’ve ever been a part of.” The immaculately tailored and impeccably polite 54-year-old has been in charge of the Wildcats since 2001 and this was his first final.
  • (8) Alongside ragas played by the pukka sarod player Wajahat Khan and the impeccable santoor player Shivkumar Sharma is a CD by the slightly less acclaimed Anoushka Shankar, daughter of Ravi.
  • (9) Even the normally impeccable David Silva overhit a pass, which happens about as often as his side lose at home.
  • (10) Head of Sky News John Ryley said: "Ian's credentials are impeccable.
  • (11) While the hosts went on to trim a growing deficit to 3-1 with an impeccably directed drive from Darren Fletcher, that simply galvanised City.
  • (12) This makes possible an impeccable bridge-shaped design for the main part of the dentures, with wide-open inter-implant rincing areas.
  • (13) Yesterday's government announcements – impeccably trailed, as so often, by the scarily efficient coalition communications strategists – were designed to press the feelgood buttons of Britain's rail commuters.
  • (14) "While Ryan has impeccable character and no previous history, unfortunately, because of the process we have to maintain confidentiality and are not able to discuss it any further, but we are confident that he will ultimately be exonerated," he said.
  • (15) But for me, Mad Men reigns because it's done all of this work so impeccably that it almost doesn't matter where this final season goes.
  • (16) Bac Sierra, in an impeccable suit and tie, was right behind them every day, in the first of three rows of benches usually full of friends and supporters.
  • (17) Not for one second did he behave with anything other than impeccable manners, humour and grace and a desire to collaborate on an entirely even playing field.
  • (18) Despite an impeccable track record as an economist and policymaker, Summers remains widely associated with the period of laissez-faire economic policy-making that led up to the banking crash and his decision to step aside on the eve of the fifth anniversary of the crisis shows how raw the politics remain in Washington.
  • (19) Her journalistic credentials are impeccable; a degree in Modern Languages from Oxford, followed by a spell as a Panorama researcher, then as a reporter on Newsnight, before graduating to the studio.
  • (20) But there is one American whose green credentials are often seen as impeccable - Al Gore.