1. Warranting only temporal punishment
   "venial sin"
   - minor 
2. Easily excused or forgiven
   "a venial error"
   - excusable, forgivable

See also: pardonable

Encyclopedia: Venial

• unwisely
• unwiseness
• unwished
• unwished-for
• unwitting
• unwittingly
• unwomanly
• unwonted
• unwontedly
• unwooded
• unworkable
• unworkmanlike
• unworldly
• unworn
• unworried
• unworthily
• unworthiness
• unworthy
• unwounded
• unwoven
• unwrap
• unwrapped
• unwrinkled
• unwritten
• unwritten law