499. Peccadillo - English Vocabulary - Euphemisms - Peccadillo / Peccadillos

Peccadillo :  사소한 잘못, 사소한 잘못, (완곡어구로 상대방의 저지른 잘못의 심각성을 낮추기 위한 표현으로서) 작은 잘못, 하찮은 실수, 경솔한 행동

Peccadillos

 

 

1)
a peccadillo is a small fault or a small sin
something that you do wrong and that well it's unimportant
it's easy to forgive people that the peccadillos of their youth technically a peccadillo is a misdeed, a slip, an error, a lapse in judgement
it's a small flaw or a small sin
I think in reality a peccadillo is like eating too much chocolate or going to sleep during an unimportant meeting
a petty offense doing something minor 
indiscretions
misdeed
misbehavior
infraction

 

 

2)

peccadillo for things that in reality are much more than peccadillo

I think this world is used very often euphemistically to lessen the seriousness or intensity of something
this word peccadillo, to talk about extramarital sex
Bill Clinton would apologize for his peccadillos when he was president whereas I think his wife Hillary would say you SOB

(son of a bitch), you were unfaithful to me 

i think it's a way of smoothing and reducing the severity of what somebody has done wrong
a peccadillo, to try to make something that is actually reasonably serious into something that's not so important

to make it sound much less serious than it may well be
it's a trifling fault 
it's a minor offense
something that's not very important but be careful because we use this this very often euphemistically and especially for sex
they are actually greater sins now
notice, we use this particularly for sexual misconduct
his wife turned a blind eye to his peccadillos, to his infidelity

 

Formality : 6

 

 

 

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