What's the difference between offense and peccadillo?

Offense


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Offence

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The strike, which Central Command said destroyed the Isis fighting position, follows Barack Obama's vow in his televised speech on Wednesday to go on the offensive against Isis more broadly in Iraq and, soon, Syria.
  • (2) New offensive coach Tony Sparano was also a fan of Wildcat packages when he was head coach in Miami.
  • (3) We all do different things.” She was front and centre at Ashley’s side in footage shot last week by Sky News cameramen, who were also part of the “selected media” entourage invited to Shirebrook to launch the group’s charm offensive.
  • (4) Such extravagant claims will be familiar to the scheme's architect, Richard Rogers, whose designs for the office development beside St Paul's Cathedral in the 1980s were torpedoed when Charles implied in a public speech that the plans were more offensive than the rubble left by the Luftwaffe during the blitz.
  • (5) The central hypothesis of our study, then, was that psychotic men, charged with misdemeanor offenses, would be incarcerated for significantly longer periods of time, prior to trial, than their nonpsychotic fellows.
  • (6) It's not that Thompson isn't a a very good player – he and Steph Curry have been running one of the most potent offensives in the NBA over the last two years or so and he's obviously a much better defensive player than Love.
  • (7) It’s no good me swearing on a Bible; I don’t share your faith.” Morrison said: “I will do it, Ray, but I think it’s a very offensive thing for you to ask me to do but I’ll do it if that’s what you require...if you insist I will.” Hadley did not persist with the demand.
  • (8) The mean number of different types of drugs "ever used" was 5.87, and the mean number of drug sale offenses was 4.4.
  • (9) 18) Dallas Cowboys Last season: 8-8 Needs: Offensive line, safety, defensive tackle, running back Pick: Kenny Vaccaro, safety, Texas Tony Romo often carries the can for the Cowboys' offensive calamities, but the truth is that not many quarterbacks look great when they are running for their lives.
  • (10) 3.46am BST Here's the instant response from Ewen MacAskill , at the scene of the debate-crime: Barack Obama staged a strong comeback in his second showdown with Mitt Romney, with the president describing his Republican opponent as "offensive" in suggesting he was playing politics over Benghazi and portraying him as more extreme than George W Bush on social issues such as women's rights.
  • (11) Speaking in Washington on Thursday, the Iraqi prime minister, Haider al-Abadi, said the offensive underscored the growing threat posed by Isis militants – whom he referred to using the group’s Arabic acronym “Daesh”.
  • (12) Kurdish peshmerga forces backed by the US-led coalition have launched attacks on Islamic State east of Mosul as the campaign to oust the militants stepped up with three offensives across Iraq and Syria.
  • (13) Partners to the drug-treated mice showed a decrease in the occurrence of offensive ambivalence and of the element "rattle".
  • (14) UN envoy Staffan De Mistura halted the latest Syria talks on 3 February, because of major differences between the two sides, exacerbated by increased aerial bombings and a wide military offensive by Syrian troops and their allies under the cover of Russian airstrikes.
  • (15) Top Gear presenter Clarkson, who has been repeatedly criticised for making offensive comments, had condemned Sky for the decision, describing it as "heresy by thought".
  • (16) The unremitting assault on Aleppo by Russian and Syrian forces over recent days is certainly testament to that.” In a week of what residents have described as the worst airstrike campaign since the start of the civil war in Syria , forces loyal to Assad have begun the early stages of a ground offensive aimed at reclaiming eastern Aleppo, which has been under opposition control since 2012.
  • (17) However, the growing offensive against the left by the pro-capitalist wing of the Labour party inevitably had a damaging impact on the LPYS.
  • (18) In April 2009, he launched the first concerted offensive against the extremists, routing them in the Swat valley in the north-west, before starting the continuing operations in Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal area, which runs along the Afghan border.
  • (19) The so-called “709 crackdown” has alarmed activists and foreign observers who view the offensive as part of a broader bid to consolidate political control by an increasingly authoritarian leadership.
  • (20) Since the beginning of December, MNLA leaders have been broadcasting their plans to start an offensive, led by the head of the movement's military wing, Colonel Mohamed Ag Najim.

Peccadillo


Definition:

  • (n.) A slight trespass or offense; a petty crime or fault.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In London, Boris Johnson's peccadilloes are well known.
  • (2) People were learning more about the peccadilloes of other countries, including the US, and they resented outside criticism.
  • (3) The problem is that these are no longer the harmless peccadilloes of the super-rich, presented as fundamental to incentivise performance.
  • (4) "It's just not that important, really," says Tom Abell, chairman of Peccadillo Pictures .
  • (5) When it is disproportionate punishment for a mishap, gaffe, peccadillo or insensitive remark, it is crude accountability.
  • (6) Abell says that Peccadillo's cinema releases will also be delayed, even though the actual theatrical prints are digitally sourced and have not been destroyed.
  • (7) The magazine is widely loathed by Brazil's left, who claim it is inherently biased against the ruling Workers' party and its allies, and pays undue attention to the peccadilloes of politicians from these parties, while brushing over those of its friends.
  • (8) Facebook Twitter Pinterest In more than a quarter of a century as a fixture on US television, David Letterman has revelled in the peccadilloes and sexual indiscretions of countless public figures.
  • (9) The publicity material from its distributor, Peccadillo, describes how its lead character, Pietro, encounters ghostly apparitions after moving into a new apartment and refers to the story as a "fantastical comedy that explores themes of love, friendship, and mortality".
  • (10) Nor does he accept the argument that curtailing the media's freedom to write about the peccadilloes of the rich and famous is tantamount to censorship.
  • (11) Kazakhstan US cables described the peccadilloes of the Kazakh elite, including the 40-horse stable of Nursultan Nazarbayev, the president, a private Elton John concert for a top politician and an extraordinary midnight dance by the prime minister at a nightclub called Chocolat.
  • (12) Photograph: Sophia Evans for the Observer Not a euphemism for a sexual peccadillo (see also, pulled pork), but an LA export gaining a foothold in London.
  • (13) Droo Padhiar, head of publicity of Peccadillo Pictures, the distributor of those films, as well as Stranger By the Lake, says these releases are part of a more liberal attitude to more extreme sex scenes.
  • (14) Here in South Africa we have been talking about President Zuma's sexual peccadilloes for a long time.
  • (15) The story of her peccadilloes is well known – her love affairs and her part in a variety of suspected crimes, including the murder of the 14-year-old township activist Stompie Moeketsi Seipei in 1989.
  • (16) So his own peccadillo was as nothing within the greater realm of human unhappiness.
  • (17) "It's a huge dent in our business", said Tom Abell, managing director of Peccadillo Pictures, who lost virtually their entire DVD stock of 50-60,000 units.
  • (18) Stranger By the Lake [which Peccadillo will release in the UK next year] is very much a gay film, whereas A Magnificent Haunting really isn't."
  • (19) The emphasis was always on the comedy, the foibles and peccadilloes of the characters, a gentle cynicism about the ways of the world, a joy in puns, a love of irritating footnotes, a relish for the bathetic puncturing of the bombastic – and above all an irrepressible and infectious silliness.
  • (20) Elevated above the need to hold down a job, Fleming spends most of his time lounging around in opulence, developing sexual peccadillos and shopping.

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