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venial

  • s  warranting only temporal punishment
    venial sin
  • s  easily excused or forgiven
    a venial error
  Usage(s)

  • Liberals hotly contested moral policing and declared that premarital kissing was neither a venial nor a mortal sin.
  • Cigarette companies justifies smoking as a venial sin for smokers, because as per them, evidence of danger is not yet conclusive.
  • John did not realize when his venial sin of occasional drinking transitioned to the mortal sin of alcoholism.
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  venial
  • Lech Walesa in Forbes
    Archbishop Wielgus has committed a venial sin, a small thing that ruined an otherwise exemplary past,Walesa told the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera. "The consequences are decisively disproportionate to the merit he earned through...
  • Ralph Friedgen in Washington Times
    I felt like St. Peter,Friedgen said. "There were some mortal sins, and there were some venial sins. I had to determine what degree that was. But they were all sins. In Da'Rel's case, it was the wrong decision. He was trying to help...
  • Richard J Codey in Asbury Park Press
    It's time to stop rehashing the past and just move forward,Codey said. "We have a great system in place. Any sins of the past, which are venial, not mortal, are gone."

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