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“I'm not particularly an Obama supporter (I'm still holding out hope for Gore) but I would definitely characterize the Punjab thing as a pecadillo.”
“Whether his crime - taken in isolation - is a minor pecadillo or a major breach of ethics and law is totally irrelevant.”
“He should very much do it in the first place, if that is his own pecadillo.”
“Maybe a New York Democrat with experience with lust causing political problems, a guy whose middle name is pecadillo, could help Spitzer.”
“They really do have some nerve and audacity to shout for Spitzer's impeachment over a sexual pecadillo - considering the blood soaked trousers they all strut around in every day!”
“Again, a man might have the same problem with a wife, but Bill is rock-star famous and a former and current statesman, and his bad behavior is liable to have more impact than a pecadillo on the part of Mrs. Grover Cleveland ever could have been.”
“These pecadillo rants, back and forth, are now closed.”
“Why are the right wing so willing to forgive the little pecadillos and my guess is that KR suffers a great deal as a result of his little pecadillo of their appointed leaders/saints and yet so eager to hurl abuse at the “other?””
“He's at his best when criticising the US for every pecadillo, no matter how minor and some of them are rather worse than that.”
“She had learned not to carp unmercifully at a pecadillo on the one hand, and forgive a great wrong on the other; and she had also learned to discriminate between petty infractions and gross enormities.”
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stpeter's Words
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hannah's Words
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speaking in tongues
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Ressalie's list
These are a few words that I have found to either sound strange or to be fairly useless.
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