(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.
Peccant
Definition:
(a.) Sinning; guilty of transgression; criminal; as, peccant angels.
(a.) Morbid; corrupt; as, peccant humors.
(a.) Wrong; defective; faulty.
(n.) An offender.
Example Sentences:
(1) General, its evacuated peccant humors by vein section and purgation; local, it acts upon surrounding regions (shoulder, tempel, ear, chin), in the mouth (collutorium), on the tooth or its cavity.