Synonyms for cardinal sin

Grammar : Noun

Définition of cardinal sin

As in mortal sin : noun unforgivable sin

Example sentences :

With my grandmother, to fail in the due ordering of a house was a cardinal sin.
Extract from : « The Dew of Their Youth » by S. R. Crockett

Horse stealing is the cardinal sin in the mountain desert, but Andrew felt the moment he saw her that she must be his.
Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand

Her early training had been in a church which regarded self-destruction as a cardinal sin.
Extract from : « Love Stories » by Mary Roberts Rinehart

It was generally that way, for Step Hen forgot, which was his most cardinal sin.
Extract from : « The Boy Scouts Along the Susquehanna » by Herbert Carter

It is the cardinal sin against which the Society of Friends have always striven.
Extract from : « The Independence Day Horror at Killsbury » by Asenath Carver Coolidge

From the foregoing estimate it may easily be gathered that imperfect technique is the cardinal sin of the average amateur poet.
Extract from : « Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 » by Howard Phillips Lovecraft

Brown left him then, with a nod that conveyed remission of cardinal sin, and a warning not to repeat the offence.
Extract from : « Told in the East » by Talbot Mundy

Ulick was too fond of his pleasures, and girls were no doubt the stencil of his cardinal sin.
Extract from : « Painted Veils » by James Huneker

Odd—when Pax had ruled, there were thought police and the cardinal sin was to be a liberal, to experiment, to seek knowledge.
Extract from : « Star Born » by Andre Norton

To persons deeply imbued with religious feeling, hypocrisy is the cardinal sin.
Extract from : « The Real Jesus of the Four Gospels » by J. B. Atwater

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