cardinal sin

Noun

Meaning

cardinal sin (plural cardinal sins)

Any of the deadly sins.

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If youre a reporter, the easiest thing in the world is to get a story. The hardest thing is to verify. The old sins were about getting something wrong, that was a cardinal sin. The new sin is to be boring. David Halberstam

That was a sin: to consider yourself victimized or not able to control your destiny or your fate - that was the one cardinal sin in our community. Condoleezza Rice

If you call attention to yourself at the expense of the song, that's the cardinal sin. Benmont Tench

The cardinal sin in sports, what could really wreck it, is not cheating to win, which has gone on forever, but cheating to lose. That threatens a fundamental aspect of sports' appeal, which is their spontaneity. If games are fixed, they're no different from movies; they're scripted. Michael Mandelbaum

I committed a cardinal sin as a kid. I never spoke, and my mother thought there was something seriously wrong with me. A silent child is regarded as a problem in Ireland, and I just read all the time. Ken Bruen

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