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deadly sins
plural noun
- the seven sins of pride, covetousness, lust, anger, gluttony, envy, and sloth.
deadly sins
plural noun
- theol the sins of pride, covetousness, lust, envy, gluttony, anger, and sloth
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Word History and Origins
Origin of deadly sins1
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Example Sentences
When Cullotta looks back on his life, he acknowledges his deadly sins and shrugs when folks ask him about the prison time he did.
He is well nourished, but seems to have been worried into a system of small deceptions which the woman magnifies into deadly sins.
One is almost tempted to say that it is at once the least obvious and the most destructive of all the deadly sins.
The three deadly sins of Pride, Covetousness, and Lust had each its victim.
There are two deadly sins in modern female dress which seem to defy all considerations of beauty and convenience.
It required man, with his imagination, aided by his mastery of matter, to invent the deadly sins.
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