small sin

When people care enough about history to study and read it, it’s a small sin to lie and mislead in dramas.

If the warden shares unequally with the pensioners, it may be a small sin, but inequality cannot be passed over too indulgently in any one case, for fear that it may be passed over in every case.

Then came Messi’s small sin of the night.

And I would insist that, with all our follies, we still do much better with children than people mostly have in the past - hovering over-attentively around them being a small sin compared to beating them and sending them out into the fields and mines and factories.

But while the Archdeacon considered that Jack's way to the Hall lay over the woolsack, his wife had in view a short cut through the marriage market; being a woman, and so thinking it a small sin in a man to marry for money.