peccant

• “Nothing is safe from this porcelain peccant pilferer, this corrupt criminal crockery, for the moment you turn your back, this amazing Ash Tray will abscond with all your electronic posessions and sell them on ebay.”

  Mug with a Message | Engrish.com

• “Yesterday, he by severe cross-examination extracted from Lord MORLEY admission of personal knowledge of what are known as the peccant paragraphs in document handed on behalf of War Office to General GOUGH.”

  Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 8, 1914

• “If a person has an abscess, the medical man will say that it contains "peccant" matter, and people say that they have a "bad" arm or finger, or that they are very "bad" all over, when they only mean "diseased.”

  Erewhon; or, Over the range

• “It also tapped into the lighter side of the dour-looking Mr. Safire: a Pickwickian quibbler who gleefully pounced on gaffes, inexactitudes, neologisms, misnomers, solecisms and perversely peccant puns, like "the president's populism" and "the first lady's momulism.”

  Gershon Hepner: William Safire

• “The peccant cat follows me into the kitchen meowing constantly.”

  2009 April

• “The Timesobit is written strongly enough in the Safire style--in one case he's described as "a Pickwickian quibbler who gleefully pounced on gaffes, inexactitudes, neologisms, misnomers, solecisms and perversely peccant puns"--that it makes you wonder if he drafted it himself.”

  William Safire, 1929-2009

• “The tattle of society did its best to place the peccant husband above the suffering wife.”

  My Aunt Margaret's Mirror

• “My worry is that Obama, who appeals to the best of our nature, and to the transformative power of government, lives in a fantasy world, disconnected from the peccant realities of what it takes to get things done in Washington.”

  David Matthews: Obama is full of it. Hope, I mean.

• “In photographing and videotaping Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen while they walked the streets of Paris, notoriously peccant paparazzi agency X17 may have broken French and international law.”

  The French Remember Princess Diana & Try To Save MK Olsen | Best Week Ever

• “Gavendum hic diligenter a, multum, calefacientibus, atque exsiccantibus, sive alimenta fuerint haec, sive medicamenta: nonnulli enim ut ventositates et rugitus conpescant, hujusmodi utentes medicamentis, plurimum peccant, morbum sit augentes: debent enim medicamenta declinare ad calidum vel frigidum secundum exigentiam circumstantiarum, vel ut patiens inclinat ad cal. et frigid.”

  Anatomy of Melancholy

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