sinful

Example Sentences

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Behavioural science can also impact your choice on more sinful things too.

From BBC • Jan. 28, 2026

The South Carolina secession convention declared the state was leaving the Union because northerners “have denounced as sinful the institution of slavery.”

From Slate • Sep. 24, 2025

Nevertheless, some of his more proximate misdeeds are effectively used to make clear that Mantel's antihero is, in the denouement of his life, fully alert to his sinful state.

From Salon • Mar. 23, 2025

In its day, the Feb. 1, 1922, unsolved murder of director William Desmond Taylor left Americans both fascinated and morally high-horsing about those sinful Hollywood people.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 17, 2024

“And there’s nothing sinful about teaching a lesson to a disrespectful donkey.”

From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini