seven deadly sins
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Gluttony is one of Christianity’s seven deadly sins.
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2024
Each cone represents one of the seven deadly sins: lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, envy and pride.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 22, 2023
Of the seven deadly sins, envy is the one you’d least expect to see in the world’s highest-ranking executives.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 19, 2022
He defined boredom as "ultimately about not caring for whatever is around you" and placed it among the seven deadly sins.
From Salon ● Dec. 5, 2021
"No,—domestic and family and educational intolerance,—one of the seven deadly sins on which I am preaching,—one of 'the foxes.'"
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 92, June, 1865 by Various
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