peccant🔊

Of a person, etc.: that commits or has committed an offence or a sin; blameworthy, culpable, offending, sinful, sinning.

Of an action or thing: causing offence or sin; offensive, sinful.

(pathology, historical, also figurative) Especially of humors of the body: diseased, unhealthy; also, causing disease.

(obsolete) Offending a norm, a rule, etc.; defective, faulty, wrong.

(obsolete) An offender; also, a sinner.