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The cardinal sin was insincerity, two-facedness, of appearing to be one thing while actually being another.
Apart from anything else, this secretiveness adds up to the cardinal sin of security by obscurity.
One could settle for the same old brand every time, but to get stuck in a fragrance rut is a cardinal sin.
One of the most popular presidents in recent memory is about to commit a cardinal sin.
Admittedly he is inclined to forget things like birthdays, but that's not a cardinal sin, not in my book, anyway.
Too much of it is loose, self-indulgent and, the cardinal sin of political comedy, badly researched.
Such reticence, of course, is a cardinal sin in a media world that worships the gods of celebrity and fame.
Apparently, choosing a place name, when not one member of the group actually hail from it, is something of a cardinal sin.
I'd like to beg your collective indulgences while I commit the cardinal sin of bringing too much of the reviewer into the review.
The cardinal sin in scientific communication is vagueness, not bad grammar.
Traveling alone is seen as sad and desperate, a cardinal sin, reserved for those social pariahs who talk to their cats.
I had committed the cardinal sin of pride and this was my punishment.
True to form, I committed a cardinal sin by ordering a side order of chips, and then spent a guilt-ridden lunch eating them with mayonnaise and ketchup.
And it's to be classified as a scrounger – for the cardinal sin of not being as well as other people.
Another cardinal sin committed by the Commission is that its proposal contains no measures whatsoever for integration.
This is another example of keeping the House in the dark, just what the Auditor General said was the cardinal sin of the government.
I was sure the owner committed the cardinal sin of improperly storing his wine, and I smote him with all the fervor of a zealot.
In multicultural, pluralist, tolerant Britain, ridiculing religion is frowned upon and causing offence or undermining the self-esteem of communities is a cardinal sin.
Credit attribution if neglected, is a cardinal sin that will breed bitterness within the community and discourage developers from further contributing to the project.
The great cardinal sin in business these days seems to be missing even the slightest opportunity to shove an ad in people's faces at every possible moment.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Ulick was too fond of his pleasures, and girls were no doubt the stencil of his cardinal sin.
It is the cardinal sin against which the Society of Friends have always striven.
Brown left him then, with a nod that conveyed remission of cardinal sin, and a warning not to repeat the offence.
With my grandmother, to fail in the due ordering of a house was a cardinal sin.
Horse stealing is the cardinal sin in the mountain desert, but Andrew felt the moment he saw her that she must be his.
Her early training had been in a church which regarded self-destruction as a cardinal sin.
It was generally that way, for Step Hen forgot, which was his most cardinal sin.
I had committed the cardinal sin of losing my sacred school underpants, and my buttocks were on fire from the beating the Bucko had given me.
On inappreciative March 14 sinners, you have committed a cardinal sin against our party and the time of reckoning is well at hand, Raad concluded.
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