Snide lady busted in moral offence

Usage examples of deadly sin.

Then heard they a voice that said: Go out of this ship a little while, and enter into the other, for dread ye fall in deadly sin, for and ye be found in deadly sin ye may not escape but perish: and so they went into the other ship.

Perhaps the Petrines were soft, and perhaps they were inclined to another deadly sin, that of sloth, but at least no one was ever hurt by a slothful layabout with a deadly weapon.

And oh, they were angryhe scarcely ever saw a Sot or a Knot without a frown on his faceand that was not only another deadly sin, but one that led straight to murder and mayhem.

So defiling was their presence that a true Cistercian might not raise his eyes to their face or touch their finger-tips under ban of church and fear of deadly sin.

These were men who labored steadily through the daylight hours, who mistrusted beauty and ease as part of deadly sin, who forced themselves and their children, their labor slaves, into a dull pattern of work and worship.

If there is an eighth deadly sin, it ought to be stupidity, by which all virtues are run out into dry sands.

Her deadly sin had been her arrogant presumption that she understood the human mind and its frailties, that she could cure illnesses that daunted far better doctors than she.