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venial

/vee-nee-uhl, veen-yuhl/US // ˈvi ni əl, ˈvin yəl //UK // (ˈviːnɪəl) //

恶性,阴险的,恶性的,恶毒的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : able to be forgiven or pardoned; not seriously wrong, as a sin.
    • : excusable; trifling; minor: a venial error; a venial offense.

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Examples

  • The SEC charging Goldman with securities fraud is like the Vatican charging a priest with venial sin.

  • The child, who teaches its grandmother to suck eggs, commits a venial fault in comparison.

  • Its greatest fault was not extravagance, for that is a venial folly, but ignorance, which even youth cannot wholly excuse.

  • In these hopeful moods it was a necessity of his drama that his transgression of the law should seem venial to him.

  • Play, in men whose means are ample, if considered a vice, is thought a very venial one.

  • Those who have only committed venial sins are first purified of them, and then rewarded for the good which they have done.