sinful
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Whether sinful passions or unconscious destructive urges, distracting attachments or visceral impulses, desire is the daemon that makes us act, often against our own interests and those of others.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026
Behavioural science can also impact your choice on more sinful things too.
From BBC • Jan. 28, 2026
The Southern Baptist Convention passed resolutions through the ’80s, ’90s, and 2000s that declared gambling sinful and urged the government to reject its normalization.
From Slate • Sep. 5, 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
I dint eat no appels or do nothing sinful.
From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes
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