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单词 besetting sin
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besetting sin

A fault to which a person or institution is especially prone: there was a danger of the country reverting to its besetting sin of complacency...
  • Condoned truancy and absence is one of the besetting sins of the education service.
  • In her book, the author says: ‘Pride is the besetting sin of the anorexic: pride in her self-denial, in her thin body, in her superiority.
  • The author asserts that they have difficulty in dealing with temptations and besetting sins because ‘they are both at peace in the world and divided among themselves’.

Synonyms

persistent, constant, recurrent, recurring;
inveterate, habitual, compulsive, obsessive, obsessional, uncontrollable, irresistible
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