venial / ˈvi ni əl, ˈvin yəl /

🎓大学词汇恶性阴险的恶性的恶毒的

venial 的定义

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

venial 近义词

adj. 形容词 adjective

pardonable

更多venial例句

  1. The SEC charging Goldman with securities fraud is like the Vatican charging a priest with venial sin.
  2. The child, who teaches its grandmother to suck eggs, commits a venial fault in comparison.
  3. Its greatest fault was not extravagance, for that is a venial folly, but ignorance, which even youth cannot wholly excuse.
  4. In these hopeful moods it was a necessity of his drama that his transgression of the law should seem venial to him.
  5. Play, in men whose means are ample, if considered a vice, is thought a very venial one.
  6. Those who have only committed venial sins are first purified of them, and then rewarded for the good which they have done.