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sinfully

sinfully

2 7.0
In a way that feels extremely pleasurable and a little wrong
  • adverb
  • /ˈsɪnfəli/
translation icon : pecaminosamente
  • She indulged in a sinfully rich dessert that made her feel both guilty and satisfied.
  • sinfully delicious
  • sinfully rich
  • sinfully handsome

Examples

  • For RMB 6, you can get four sinfully delicious buns.

    Blog text (27)

  • I feel sinfully rich.

    Fiction book (1994)

  • Oh, the sinfully delicious food that has set me back a week or two.

    Blog text (21)

  • It's so it's just so sinfully entertaining.

  • This has some sinfully great recipes... special treats for when you want to indulge!

    Blog text (31)

  • She's young, beautiful, and sinfully rich, if you'll pardon the expression.

    Fiction book (1990)

  • It wasn't fair, she thought sadly, that a man should have such beautiful curly hair and sinfully long eyelashes.

    Fiction book (1994)

  • The chocolate cake was so sinfully delicious that I couldn't resist having another slice.

  • After a long day, watching that movie felt sinfully pleasurable, a treat I couldn't deny myself.

Synonyms

pleasurably
vssinfully
1 3.4

In a way that feels pleasant

is more extreme and suggests guilty or excessive enjoyment
hedonically
vssinfully
  • Specialized
8.5

In a way that gives pleasure

focuses on extreme, often guilty enjoyment rather than general pursuit
intemperately
vssinfully
  • Formal
9.1

In a way that is too much and shows no control

adds a strong guilty or highly pleasurable quality to that excess
unholily
vssinfully
  • Informal
9.3

To an extremely large degree

carries the same intensity but also a sense of guilty pleasure

How Indulgent

sinfully
2 7.0
decadently
1 6.7
deliciously
19 2.3
pleasantly
50 1.0
mildly
92 2.7

Surface Forms

sinfully positive
sinfullerly comparative
sinfullestly superlative

Morphology

sinfully = sinful (semi-transparent) = sin + ful + ly

Formed by adding '-ly' to 'sinful'; while the morphology is regular, the adjective often has a figurative intensifying sense (e.g. 'sinfully delicious'), so the pragmatic meaning is slightly non-literal.

Etymology

Sinfully comes from the simple word sin ('wrong') plus -ful ('full of') and -ly (which makes it describe how something is done). So when we call food or luxury sinfully, we mean it is so rich or delicious it almost feels 'wrong', a guilty pleasure.