original sin Meaning of "original sin"

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Definition(s):

  • (n) a sin said to be inherited by all descendants of Adam

Usage(s):

  1. Vic's original sin was going down this dirty road to begin with.
  2. Willie has what Huey Long surely did not: a primitive sense of original sin.
  3. Yet for all of this, Johnson sometimes denounced bugging as if it were original sin.
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