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Answer for the clue "Cardinal sin? ", 8 letters:
spitball

Alternative clues for the word spitball

A projectile made by chewing a piece of paper and shaping it into a sphere
Outlawed baseball pitch
Changing pitch
Misbehaving student's missile
Illegal pitch
It uses liquid from a pitcher
Wet missile
Child's missile
Classroom missile

Word definitions for spitball in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1846 in the schoolboy sense, "bit of paper chewed and rounded as a missile;" 1904 in the baseball sense, from spit (n.1) + ball (n.1).

Usage examples of spitball.

Billy Camorra, twenty years old and six-feet-three, draped a lanky leg with garterless sock over his other knee, and began to fabricate a cardboard spitball, fishing around in his pockets for a rubber band.

When I was ten and he seventeen, Polar Bears and I had spitballed the congregation from the choir loft at Gethsemane church.

Dawn is like a substitute teacher (except that we don't throw spitballs behind her back when she's in charge).