deadly sin in English

noun
1
(in Christian tradition) a sin regarded as leading to damnation, especially one of a traditional list of seven.
But what should today's list of deadly sins include?
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1. The character commentaries are handled with a light touch, thus avoiding the deadly sin of Belaboring a joke past the point of humor

2. Acedia - apathy and inactivity in the practice of virtue (personified as one of the deadly sins) laziness , sloth deadly sin , mortal sin - an unpardonable sin entailing a total loss of …

3. Avarice - reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins) avaritia , greed , rapacity , covetousness deadly sin , mortal sin - an unpardonable sin entailing a total loss of grace; "theologians list seven mortal sins"

4. Acedia comes from a combination of the negative prefix a- and the Greek noun kēdos, meaning "care, concern, or grief." (The Greek word akēdeia became Acedia in Late Latin, and that spelling was retained in English.) Acedia initially referred specifically to the "deadly sin" of sloth.