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 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

Grant appeared to be making a literary reference to the allegorical Vanity Fair of sinful frivolity, but this seemed to be lost on model-turned-TV personality Graham.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 2023

"Sinful, positively sinful," read an article in the food section of a 1998 issue of Lawrence Journal-World.

From Salon • Feb. 13, 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