Warranting only temporal punishment:
— Venial sin.

synonym: minor.

Roget 946: innocent, not guilty; unguilty^†; guiltless, faultless, sinless, stainless, bloodless, spotless; clear, immaculate; rectus in curia [Lat.]; unspotted, unblemished, unerring; undefiled etc. 939; unhardened^†, Saturnian; Arcadian etc. (artless) 703^†.    inculpable, unculpable^†; unblamed, unblamable^†; blameless, unfallen^†, inerrable^†, above suspicion; irreproachable, irreprovable^†, irreprehensible^†; unexceptionable, unobjectionable, unimpeachable; salvable^†; venial etc. 937.    harmless; inoffensive, innoxious^†, innocuous; dove-like, lamb-like; pure, harmless as doves; innocent as a lamb, innocent as the babe unborn; more sinned against than sinning" [Lear]. virtuous etc. 944; unreproved^†, unimpeached, unreproached^†.    ... show more

Easily excused or forgiven:
— A venial error.

synonyms: excusable, forgivable.

Roget 937: vindicated, vindicating etc. v.; exculpatory; apologetic.    excusable, defensible, pardonable; venial, veniable^†; specious, plausible, justifiable.    ... show more

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