Even though you should not do it, jay-walking is usually a venial offense. From LearnThat.org.
A venial error. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
It is true that the greatest sins are in one sense venial, that is. From Wordnik.com. [The Lord's Prayer] Reference
Therefore gluttony is accounted among the lesser, that is to say venial, sins. From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province] Reference
Lesser sins, called venial sins, are less deadly and are more easily eradicated. From Wordnik.com. [Consortiumnews.com] Reference
To his mind, the venial were the more numerous, but then, he had been a cynic for many years now. From Wordnik.com. [The Lark And The Wren]
For instead of "venial" it should be "venal," since such is the wanton's trade. From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province] Reference
Bunyan himself exaggerates venial peccadilloes into heinous sins. From Wordnik.com. [Meditations] Reference
There is a point up to which a concession made to friendship is venial. From Wordnik.com. [De Amicitia, Scipio's Dream] Reference
The old distinction between deadly sins and venial sins has in it only an element of truth. From Wordnik.com. [The Prayer Book Explained] Reference
And yet, thy crime was venial, and one easily forgiven: for she is very pretty, as I am not. From Wordnik.com. [The Substance of a Dream] Reference
Zeus his proportions are all the more majestic for the distance which rounds over any venial defect. From Wordnik.com. [The Land We Live In The Story of Our Country] Reference
Alexius used money because he could not use force, to create dissensions and to win over the venial. From Wordnik.com. [Peter the Hermit A Tale of Enthusiasm] Reference
Such persons would, perhaps, look upon this sort of carelessness as a venial offence; but it is not so. From Wordnik.com. [The Elements of Character] Reference
If shame be attached to her conduct, it is such shame as would be elsewhere felt for a venial impropriety. From Wordnik.com. [Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject] Reference
Tartarian fires of the under world, the less venial were to expiate their crimes in the same old Purgatory. From Wordnik.com. [Astral Worship] Reference
Most people in Britain now regard neither probity nor any other virtue -- all is selfish and vainal (venial). From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III.] Reference
And she's basically a good person; outside his compulsions, she hasn't committed more than the normal venial sins. From Wordnik.com. [The Alembic Plot A Terran Empire novel] Reference
You will kindly make allowance therefore for any indistinctness of writing, by attributing it to this venial error. From Wordnik.com. [Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record] Reference
It is a sort of shadow of despair, and will lead us into numberless venial sins the first half-hour we give way to it. From Wordnik.com. [Daily Strength for Daily Needs] Reference
Men have been hanged for more venial murders than some have been praised for who have choked out the immortal soul of the Psalms of David. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860] Reference
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