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prettygoodword ([personal profile] prettygoodword) wrote2008-09-22 07:20 am

peccant

peccant - adj., erring, guilty of a moral offense, sinning; violating a rule or established practice.


Despite the root (from Latin peccāns, present participle of peccāre, to sin), the connotation is of having committed a small infraction.

---L.

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