Meanings of cardinal sins in English

Yes, I know those are cardinal sins as far as you're concerned.

Another of my major faults, or cardinal sins, according to my mother.

IT'S ONE of the cardinal sins of indoor running.

As to order and obedience, they seem to be cardinal sins rather than cardinal virtues, at present.

In The Black One we find the seven cardinal sins, the forty felonies, and the hundred and one misdemeanors.

He was the symbol of Jimville's respectability, although he was of a sect that held dancing among the cardinal sins.

There is to be no villain in this drama with the face of an Abbe Maury like the seven cardinal sins.

The two cardinal sins of a writer now are to have a style of his own and ideas of his own.

Don't trouble about it, if you think you will be committing one of the cardinal sins in doing me this favor.

Jealousy, selfishness, envy, three of the cardinal sins of the theologian, are likewise three of the great motive forces of mankind.

Of the cardinal sins of man, Desire is for men who are men-butDelusion, which is only for cowards, hampers them.

Seven cardinal sins; but what of the eighth?-theparent of all the others, the one beside which the children seem almost white?

While it is considered one of the cardinal sins of boxing to look past your next opponent, Groves resolutely marches to his own beat.

They drew up a list of commandments against the forty-two cardinal sins, and one of them was this, 'Thou shalt not consume thy heart.'

The priesthood of every religious cult has manifested a propensity to magnify venial faults into cardinal sins and thereby bring worship into contempt by trifling.

"Her list of cardinal sins is extensive."