peccable

Peccable I may be, but this is not one of those times.

He'd do the talking, he said, or else she'd put not only her own life in jeopardy but that of the whole Peccable clan.

The thought that she had played an im- peccable hand made me feel better.

"How is our poor peccable friend?"

Leon was amused and fascinated by Buddy Hamstra, "that poor peccable great man," he called him.

But for your $22.50, you do get impeccable service, in contrast to many New York diners, where the service is often highly peccable.

She had thoroughly enjoyed the impeccable service, the superb food, Luke's slightly peccable company and the certainty with which he enthused about their 'world exclusive'.

"If your grandfather and father would be trying to be im- peccable warriors," don Juan went on, "they wouldn't have time for petty fights.

And Mrs. Hancock delivers Mrs. Malaprop's peccable usages with impeccable aplomb.

IMAJICA 459 A wind began to get up after a while, and it carried a member of the Peccable family to the door.

They were perched high above the city, in one of the towers she'd briefly glimpsed as she'd gone around the Peccable house with Hoi-Polloi, bolting and shuttering.

The King's peccable German cousins were thereafter snubbed and when his Russian cousin, the Czar, asked for asylum from the Bolsheviks, he was turned down, with dire consequences.

The film has a secure and sophisticated sense of what makes farce so delicious, which may not be surprising, since its credentials are about as impeccable as you can find in the peccable atmosphere of Hollywood.