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Click the Deadly Sin

There are seven "deadly sins". Click the one which corresponds to each clue.
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Last updated: January 7, 2025
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Salieri's sin in the movie "Amadeus"
Take an antacid to help with this sin's aftereffects
Also known as indolence
Lucifer's sin
Hester Prynne's sin
Also known as avarice
A group of lions is called a ...
Sometimes known as jealousy
Represented by the Greek god Priapus
John Wick's sin
Steinbeck book: "The Grapes of _____"
Sin that a procrastinator indulges in
Don Juan's sin
Gordon Gekko said this sin was good
Also the name of an animal
Someone who "covets" has this sin
Ebeneezer Scrooge's sin
Sin which a "gastronome" indulges in
Also known as hubris
Its name comes from the Latin for "to swallow"
Proverb: A soft answer turneth away _____
Envy
Gluttony
Greed
Lust
Pride
Sloth
Wrath
24 Comments
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Level 79
Jan 8, 2025
This was great. One of my favourite OG QM quizzes!
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Level 86
Jan 8, 2025
I learned the root of priapism today.
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Level 80
Jan 8, 2025
Nice quiz! Ebenezer is spelt wrong by the way
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Level 96
Jan 8, 2025
I'm not Christian, so forgive me if I misunderstood this. Was it not Lucifer's Envy of Christ's position as the Son of God which led to his rebellion? I know he is associated with Pride as it was his belief in his own intelligence, beauty and power which made him believe he could rule after usurping God, but his Envy is what catalyzed this action. Maybe even Wrath, really.
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Level 78
Jan 9, 2025
Lucifer was condemned before the birth of Christ, because he wanted to be superior to God. I guess that it could also be described as envy (of God), but it's mostly a matter of pride. In the Bible Lucifer is usually associated with Pride ("He is king over all the children of pride.", "being puffed up with pride he fall into the same condemnation as the devil." and "For you have said in your heart: 'I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God (...) I will be like the Most High. Yet you shall be brought down (...) to the lowest depths of the Pit."

In later tradition, Lucifer has always been associated with pride, such in as Milton's Paradise Lost: "Better to reign in hell than to serve in Heaven".

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Level 91
Jan 12, 2025
Morgoth was condemned before the creation of the elves because he thought himself superior to Manwe.

I love stories…

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Level 32
Jan 23, 2025
thank you for asking so respectively!
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Level 33
Jan 24, 2025
I agree with your statement. Lucifer was jealous of how God was being loved and praised and he wanted that because he believed he was as beautiful and as reviered. It was jealousy that was the beginning of his downfall.
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Level 91
Jan 12, 2025
One of the biggest (and chiefly unnoticed) contradictions when being brought up as a modern Christian, is that we are taught that pride is a sin. Yet we are simultaneously encouraged to take pride in many things.

Cognitive dissonance on a grand scale.

Come on God, which is it?

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Level 64
Jan 23, 2025
God here.

Ineptly, the English word "pride" has three meanings:

1) Pride in achievements of one's in-group.

2) Satisfaction in own achievements - a mental reward for effort

These two are inspirational and will keep you honest.

3) The Deadly Sin: Self importance, refusal to accept criticism, being easily offended. Children have a hard time growing out of this one.

The deadly sins are called that, not because they offend me, but because engaging in them are harmful to yourself or others, and can or will eventually kill you.

The worst one being Envy - the resentment of others for having something you don't. Mountains of skulls have been the outcome.

Also, it is not to be conflated with jealousy, which is not a sin, merely your brain warning you that you are about to lose something you have or imagine yourself having. A type of fear.

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Level 80
Jan 13, 2025
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife.

Surely that represents lust, rather than envy?

That is the only context of "covet" that comes to my mind, so either the question needs rewording or lust should become an acceptable answer also.

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Level ∞
Jan 13, 2025
Here's the full verse, King James version:

"Neither shalt thou desire thy neighbour's wife, neither shalt thou covet thy neighbour's house, his field, or his manservant, or his maidservant, his ox, or his ass, or any thing that is thy neighbour's."

So unless you want to, um, have relations with a building, an ox, or a plot of land, it's pretty clear what covet means.

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Level 78
Jan 23, 2025
Hey, no covet-shaming.
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Level 66
Jan 23, 2025
One definition of lust is "To desire very strongly".
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Level 74
Jan 23, 2025
Dante assigns a separate level of Purgatory to each of the seven deadly sins, with sinners undergoing very specific forms of suffering to expiate each sin:

Pride: the proud atone for their sins by carrying heavy stones that keep their necks and heads bowed;

Envy: the envious atone by having their eyes sewn shut, like hunting falcons;

Wrath: the wrathful are choked and blinded by black smoke;

Sloth: the slothful atone for their sins by running ceaselessly, while shouting examples of zeal;

Avarice: the avaricious repent while lying prostrate;

Gluttony: the gluttonous are redeemed by unbearable hunger and thirst; and

Lust: the lustful atone for their sins in fire.

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Level 42
Jan 23, 2025
damn. As a non christian, those weren't what i was expecting!
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Level 66
Jan 23, 2025
Very good. Thank you
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Level 79
Jan 23, 2025
Super original...great idea and job!
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Level 49
Jan 23, 2025
strange I thought that sin in any form was deadly, be it in deeds, words or even thoughts.
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Level 51
Jan 23, 2025
Me when I’m Buddhist/Jewish/Atheist and only know the seven deadly sins from watching an episode of Young Sheldon…
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Level 66
Jan 23, 2025
My favourite factoid is always that the seven main characters of Spongebob were based on the seven cardinal sins!
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Level 37
Jan 24, 2025
how? inquiring minds wish to know
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Level 43
Jan 25, 2025
Are the seven deadly sins more cultural interpretations, than crimes listed in the Bible? Have they stayed consistent in the past 2000 years? I remember reading somewhere ‘sadness’ used to be a deadly sin but then somewhere along the line Catholics substituted it with ‘sloth’…though it sounds more like a Puritan creation to me.
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Level 35
Jan 31, 2025
better than average, hey? !