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

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Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context baseball English) A pitch of a baseball that has been partly covered with saliva, illegal at most levels. 2 A balled-up piece of paper, moistened with saliva (by chewing) and shot through a drinking straw. vb. To brainstorm ideas.

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
A spitball may refer to: Spitball - baseball that has been altered by the application of saliva, petroleum jelly, or some other foreign substance. Spitball (prank) - a wad of paper wet with saliva. The season one episode Spitballs / Popcorn Pandemonium ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
spitball \spit"ball`\, spit ball \spit" ball`\, n. Paper chewed, and rolled into a ball, to be thrown as a missile; -- a childish prank. (Baseball) A pitched ball in throwing which the pitcher grips the ball between two, or three, fingers on one side (which ...

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).