cardinal sin

Mixing together the BLS household data and the BLS establishment data is “a cardinal sin of BLS data analysis,” observes the pseudonymous economics commentator Invictus of Ritholtz Wealth Management, in an indispensable deconstruction of Ohanian’s original post.

Attributing consciousness to animals based on their responses was seen as a cardinal sin.

Johnson may have risked losing his speakership because he reached out to Democrats—a cardinal sin in the eyes of extremist House Republicans—in order to pass the package.

They started with an epic battle for the speaker's office that ended even before the year was up with the dramatic defenestration of that same speaker for committing the cardinal sin of compromising with the Democratic Senate and White House to keep the government running.

The residents’ cardinal sin is placing all the responsibility on a single man, eager to wash their hands of any guilt.