Voorbeelden uit tekstcorpus voor Peccadillo
1. Again, a peccadillo that to Europeans is affordable starves people in the poor world.
2. Snobbery would continue to thrive as a private peccadillo, as it does abroad, but it would not be publicly condoned.
3. Alongside it, the sale of seats in the legislature for cash seems a trifling peccadillo, the corrupt practices of ministers mere foibles.
4. Brown then coolly capped private pension funds at 1.4m while outrageously fixing Blair‘s at 3m (presumably as an inducement to go). It made selling peerages seem a peccadillo.
5. Of course, as Weldon demonstrates in her book, with its other sections on "food" (mostly pudding: caramelised bananas) and "shopping" (shoes), it is not unusual for women to advertise certain weaknesses, presumably because they believe – perhaps correctly – that the relevant peccadillo extravagantly confirms their femininity.