venial

Example Sentences

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My reservations have little to do with standard criticisms like awkward performances or clunky production values — venial sins, surely, for new filmmakers trying to find their way.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2018

That’s an awfully venial sin, and I think you’ll have to deal with your outsize feelings of grief on your own.

From Slate • Jul. 12, 2016

The word venial, as in venial sins, she says, comes from Venus.

From Washington Post • Jun. 7, 2012

What we got was akin to looting an ATM: not just amusing, venial sins, but some nearly unforgivable mortal ones.

From Golf Digest • Aug. 3, 2010

Father Byrnes went on to discuss the difference between mortal and venial sins.

From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya