English-French translations for venial

• véniel
  Aux yeux de nombre de mes collègues, l’incompétence passe pour un péché véniel. In the eyes of some of my colleagues, incompetence passes for a venial sin.

Definition of venial

• Pardonable; able to be forgiven
• Excusable; trifling

Examples

• a venial sin
• His venial youthful indiscretions.

Related words

• venialness
• veniality
• venial sin