sinful

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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

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

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

From Salon • Feb. 13, 2023

It was a storefront church and had stood, for John’s lifetime, on the corner of this sinful avenue, facing the hospital to which criminal wounded and dying were carried almost every night.

From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin