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sinful

[sin-fuhl] / ˈsɪn fəl /


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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

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

The Talmud instructs Jews that there are three things so sinful that the ancient rabbis decided one should prefer death to doing them: sex crimes, idol worship, and—last but most important—bloodshed.

From Slate Oct. 17, 2023

Four treasure chests he’d been ignoring because somewhere in the back of his mind he thought taking things without permission was sinful.

From "The Dead and the Gone" by Susan Beth Pfeffer




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