(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.
Trifling
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Trifle
(a.) Being of small value or importance; trivial; paltry; as, a trifling debt; a trifling affair.
Example Sentences:
(1) After a relatively trifling lead exposure they developed the signs of acute lead intoxication.
(2) It featured Adam Dalgliesh, the poet-policeman, and he seemed old-fashioned, too, intellectual and a trifle upper-class.
(3) So Inter sold him to Real Madrid at the end of the 1995-96 season for the trifling sum of £3.5million - less than they had paid for him.
(4) 1.15pm: Dave Espley is not a man to be trifled with: "I'd agree with Steven Gardner regarding the use of video technology for goalline reviews, but I'd go slightly further with regard to the retrospective punishment for cheating.
(5) Clementine and dark chocolate trifle (above) This recipe gives classic trifle a zingy twist with clementines and orange blossom; a great make-ahead dinner party dessert.
(6) Of course it is the hyperbolic silliness – the make-or-break trifle sponge, custard thefts, and prolonged ruminations over "The Crumb" – that makes The Great British Bake Off so lovable.
(7) English friends had explained to me, not without pride, the importance of grumbling to the national character, but I still want to stress to every Londoner I meet that — take it from a visiting Los Angeleno — the tube exists, and that counts as no trifling achievement.
(8) But it is a trifle dispiriting even so to hear the education secretary parroting the same lines as his predecessors – even more so for teachers, I guess.
(9) This March, the proportions of loans taken by finance and property slumped all the way to a trifling 74.7%, while non-financial firms took a whopping 25.3%.
(10) It wasn't a baked Alaska, a fruit tart, a cream-laden trifle or a steamed treacle sponge.
(11) If you wish to have only a trifling risk group of 10% of all pregnant women, you can predict right only about 50% of all infants with low birth weight.
(12) Bake Off validates the small quiet dramas of the trifling everyday.
(13) As in most mutinous them-and-us industrial confrontations it had been simmering for years and then boiled over for what seemed the most trifling of reasons.
(14) "And he is at a loss whether to pity a people who take such arrant trifles in good earnest or to envy that happiness which enables a community to discuss them."
(15) I try to answer these letters, but compared to the stories I'm hearing, my experience has been trifling - as more than one correspondent has pointed out.
(16) With the menswear shows in the capital now on their sixth season, such trifles have their place even in the mainstream world of an Arcadia-owned brand.
(17) Some jokey conspiracy theories did the rounds and one YouTube user criticised Hadfield's interpretation of the song as being overly literal (arguably correct, but a trifle harsh, considering).
(18) Clegg was the deputy prime minister and would not jeopardise his relationship with the Conservative party over such a trifle.
(19) And what would become of my mornings in my little corner and my late nights scanning the TV channels, watching my crime shows, not a trifling thing?
(20) But it’s no trifle — especially given the governor’s national ambitions.