peccable /ˈpek-ə-bəl/ - liable or prone to sin : susceptible to temptation
Most everyone is familiar with the "flawless" sense of this word's negation, impeccable; I imagine most modern readers are probably as unfamiliar as I was with the first definition and even the part before the colon in the second. However, I'd never considered that peccable was also a word until I read this Words at Play post. Had I encountered it outside this post, I would have assumed that it meant something like "capable of becoming flawed or corrupted."
peccant /ˈpe-kənt/ - 1. guilty of a moral offense : sinning 2. violating a principle or rule : faulty
I was equally unfamiliar with this word. I am, sadly, all too familiar with this condition, though.
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