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4 total sentences available.
We tolerate Irene and Phil’s mild racist quirks and planet-destroying peccadilloes (“I could never own any car smaller than my Cutlass Supreme”) because their existence acts as a tranquilizer in an otherwise slightly-out-of-control world.
Source: wiktionary
The sex scandal issue isn’t really central, since Americans have a long record of voting for the candidates they think can deliver, regardless of private peccadilloes.
Source: wiktionary
When he comes to the prayer, he sometimes does me the honor of personally recommending me to the Lord, advising him that I am a worthy man and begging him to condone my occasional peccadillos.
Source: wiktionary
No sexual peccadillo is left unremarked upon.
Source: wiktionary
Closest matches include indiscretion, atrocity, blunder, botch, breach.
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