impeccable
[im-pek-uh-buhl]
- faultless; flawless; irreproachable: impeccable manners.
- not liable to sin; incapable of sin.
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Origin of impeccable
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Contemporary Examples
It is quite glamorous at first though—with you in that impeccable white suit.
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September 27, 2014
Le Monde once called his résumé "so impeccable that it's almost discouraging."
Two Rivers functions like a fanboy gift shop with impeccable replica items.
Also back is that impeccable writing, packed with all the weird, wonderful one-liners that fans fell in love with last season.
So how do blazers, trousers, and pointed-toe flats an “impeccable dress sense” make?
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Historical Examples
The impeccable character of the little house had been against it.
KMary Roberts Rinehart
Your laundress will report on everything, you know; so you must be impeccable.
The Fortune HunterLouis Joseph Vance
How was that to be reconciled with impeccable deference to the ruling religion?
Dreamers of the GhettoI. Zangwill
I think we could get the newscasts to see it as impeccable public behavior.
Tinker's DamJoseph Tinker
And what—if I may take the liberty—seeks our excellent and impeccable Gaul so far west?
Doom CastleNeil Munro
impeccable
- without flaw or error; faultlessan impeccable record
- rare incapable of sinning
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Word Origin
C16: from Late Latin impeccābilis sinless, from Latin im- (not) + peccāre to sin
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Word Origin and History for impeccable
adj.
1530s, "not capable of sin," from Middle French impeccable (15c.) or directly from Late Latin impeccabilis "not liable to sin," from assimilated form of in- "not, opposite of" (see in- (1)) + pecare "to sin," of unknown origin. Meaning "faultless" is from 1610s. Related: Impeccably.
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