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cardinal sin
noun
- theol any of the seven deadly sins
- informal.an unforgivable error or misjudgment
lack of impartiality is considered a cardinal sin in broadcasting circles
Example Sentences
"It was like a cardinal sin," Dawn Butler told the Commons during a debate on St Patrick's Day and Northern Irish affairs.
For most coaches, that is a cardinal sin.
But laughing at the Fuhrer is perhaps the cardinal sin when living under fascism—this is no joke.
And if there's one thing I was trained to avoid as a female writer in male-dominated MFA workshops, it's the cardinal sin of memoir: excessive navel-gazing.
Mixing together the BLS household data and the BLS establishment data is “a cardinal sin of BLS data analysis,†observes the pseudonymous economics commentator Invictus of Ritholtz Wealth Management, in an indispensable deconstruction of Ohanian’s original post.
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