sinful
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- adjective
- /ˈsɪn.fəl/
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pecaminoso
- The man who believes himself sinful turns his will unhealthily against himself.
- sinful act
- sinful behavior
- considered sinful
They're not putting their own people first, which is fucking sinful and shameful.
- They're not putting their own people first, which is fucking sinful and shameful.
- If so, using the bowl at my mom's house isn't sinful.
- You know, because the Christian faith teaches that cowardice is sinful.
- Then he goes on and he tells us that children, infants are sinful.
- Human beings are essentially we're sinful.
- So he uses as an example of this William Clifford, who says that it's sinful to be Christians on insufficient evidence.
- And the reason why God sent him down here is because God couldn't get near man because man was sinful.
- There's all kinds of institutions that cover for people that don't, that do evil onto the world, to do sinful things after the world.
- He he gives a sermon and he explains that every person who's born into this world is born in a sinful state.
- It says that sexual acts are sinful, but but of course it says that about all sexual acts out of wedlock.
- It's not like I was overcome by desire and you know, that led me into some sort of sinful behavior.
- You're the, you know, king of the menu at that point, you know, like to Muslims and Jewish people, it's like I'm glorifying this sinful thing.
- It should be run by people who know what purity and faith is not, set everyone free to indulge their sinful desires.
- I thought that what was happening in my thought life and the sort of like continuing to masturbate, that was sinful.
- And also to be created sinful because of, you know, Adam and Eve's transgression in the Garden of Eden.
- And just like we're I'm a comedian and I've been, you know, a sinful person in my life and coming back to Christianity is the same way.
Examples
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Most religious conservatives tend to view human nature as inherently sinful and vulnerable to temptation.
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In most places, however, people simply dismiss all blasphemy as sinful and leave it at that.
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I am changed, you know, that sinful me, that old me.
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Taking as Jesus did the sinful world as it is, not as I would have it.
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I know it was sinful, what I did.
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I guess these were people who were a little worried that music might be sinful or might lead to sin.
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I know it would be sinful to act in a movie that had sexual activity, but Lisa is so important to me.
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I know what we've done is sinful, but it does not feel wrong in my heart.
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But I think humans are deeply flawed and sinful people.
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The teacher warned that cheating on the exam is considered a sinful act.
Synonyms
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1.0
Not morally right or acceptable
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1.2
Being very bad and morally wrong, often causing harm to others
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1.0
Morally wrong or harmful to other people
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4.6
A person or action that is very bad and cruel
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Not following what most people think is right or wrong
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7.8
Very bad and cruel in the way someone behaves
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7.3
Morally wrong, especially when it breaks religious rules
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7.2
Morally wrong because it goes against religious rules
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Acting in a way that is unfair or morally wrong
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9.8
Very unfair and wrong in a way that harms people
Wrong or bad because it goes against accepted ideas of right and wrong
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How Sinful
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Morphology
Etymology
The word sinful comes from the old English word sin, which means 'a wrong act', and the ending -ful, which means 'full of'. So someone or something sinful is 'full of' wrong actions, which is why the word means morally wrong or wicked.