ˈpekənt adjective
Etymology: Latin peccant-, peccans, present participle of peccare to stumble, commit a fault, sin, probably from (assumed) Latin peccus having an injured foot, stumbling, from Latin ped-, pes foot — more at foot
1. : guilty of a moral offense : sinning , corrupt
peccant humanity — Saturday Review
imposing severe … discipline in public on peccant parishioners — Times Literary Supplement
peccant corporations — Times Literary Supplement
2. : violating a principle or rule (as of taste or propriety) : faulty
intervene to save the peccant poet — George Saintsbury
3. : diseased , unwholesome
by the lopping of a peccant member the body is saved from decay — John Austin
capable of sloughing off its peccant parts — K.L.Bates