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venial sin
noun as in slight transgression
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The SEC charging Goldman with securities fraud is like the Vatican charging a priest with venial sin.
From The Daily Beast
That is true, the Church teaches, even of unrepented156 venial sin with its debt of temporal punishment.
From Project Gutenberg
The first is a venial sin, and easily forgiven—the second nearly unpardonable.
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What is a venial sin against nature, what a mortal sin against nature?
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It is at most an evil thought, a venial sin, which does not endanger the loss of body or of soul.
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O quiet paths of algebra, you are my excuse for this venial sin!
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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